Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau'r GIG) Regulations 2005 S.I. 2005/2531 (“the principal Regulations”). The principal Regulations make provision concerning the membership and procedure of NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau'r GIG) (“the Authority”), a Special Health Authority established under the National Health Service Act 1977 by the NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau'r GIG) (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2005 S.I. 2005/2529.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 1 of the principal Regulations to insert a definition of “sentence of imprisonment”.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 2 of the principal Regulations to provide that where a person is suspended from his appointment as the chief executive of the Authority he is also suspended from performing his duties as a member of the Authority.

Regulation 4 amends regulation 3 of the principal Regulations to provide that a person is disqualified for appointment as the chairman or as a non-officer member of the Authority if he has within the previous 5 years been convicted of an offence in any jurisdiction which if committed in the United Kingdom would constitute a criminal offence and he has received a sentence for that offence of a period of imprisonment (whether suspended or not), and the conviction has not been quashed or the sentence reduced to a sentence other than a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not), on appeal.

Regulation 5 amends regulation 4 of the principal Regulations to apply the easement to disqualifications under regulation 3(1)(g)(i) and (iii) of the principal Regulations to persons who fall within regulation 3(1)(g)(ii) of the principal Regulations.