(1) This Order may be cited as the National Treatment Agency (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 2003 and shall come into force on 12th August 2003.
(2) This Order applies to England only.
(3) In this Order “the Order” means the National Treatment Agency (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2001.
Specified date: 12 August 2003: see para (1) above.
This Order applies to England only: see para (2) above.
(1) Article 4 of the Order (constitution of the Agency) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (b), for “not less than 3 and not more than 8 members” there is substituted “not less than 3 and not more than 12 members”; and
(3) In paragraph (d), for “not less than 2 and not more than 3 members” there is substituted “not less than 2 and not more than 4 members”.
Specified date: 12 August 2003: see art 1(1).
This Order applies to England only: see art 1(2).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Melanie Johnson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
15th July 2003
This Order changes the constitution of the National Treatment Agency (“the Agency”), a Special Health Authority established under section 11 of the National Health Service Act 1977. The Agency is to have between 3 and 12 non-officer members rather than between 3 and 8, and between 2 and 4 officer members rather than between 2 and 3.
