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Health and Social Care Act 2012

Section 161 – Amendment of constitution

1026.This section gives foundation trusts powers to amend their constitutions without seeking external permission. The Act retains the existing requirement on foundation trusts to have a constitution and continues to require trusts’ constitutions to include certain information. This section transfers responsibility for approving changes to a foundation trust’s constitution from Monitor to the council of governors and board of directors of the foundation trust. Subsection (2), among other things, requires that foundation trusts inform Monitor of any amendments they decide to make to their constitutions, since Monitor will continue to act as the registrar of foundation trusts, so will be responsible for maintaining on the foundation trust register the constitutions of such organisations.

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