The title of these Regulations is the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 2009 and come into force on 1 August 2009.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;

• “appointee” (“penodai”) means the chair or a non-executive director of the Trust;

• “director” (“cyfarwyddwr”) in relation to the Trust includes its chair;

• “establishment date” (“dyddiad sefydlu”) means 1 August 2009;

• “executive director” (“cyfarwyddwr gweithredol”) and “non-executive director” (“cyfarwyddwr anweithredol”) have the meaning assigned to them in paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 3 to the Act;

• “health service body” (“corff gwasanaeth iechyd”) means—

  1. a

     a Strategic Health Authority, a Special Health Authority, a Primary Care Trust, an NHS trust, an NHS foundation trust, a Local Health Board or a PHS body as defined in section 139(6) of the National Health Service Act 2006 2and section 97(6) of the Act or a contractor which is treated as a health service body pursuant to regulation 10 of the National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services etc) Regulations 20063;

  2. b

     a Health Board, a Special Health Board or the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service, respectively constituted under section 2, 10 and 12A of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19784;

  3. c

     the Scottish Dental Practice Board constituted by Regulations having effect under section 4 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;

  4. d

     the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts;

• “Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts” (“Rheoleiddiwr Annibynnol Ymddiriedolaethau Sefydledig GIG”) means the body corporate continued in existence by section 31(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006;

• “operational date” (“dyddiad gweithredol”) has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 5(5) of Schedule 3 to the Act;

• “the 1990 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1990”) means the National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 19905

• “the relevant committee” (“y pwyllgor perthnasol”) means a committee of an NHS trust appointed under either regulation 21 or regulation 22 whichever is appropriate;

• “the Trust” (“yr Ymddiriedolaeth”) means the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust established by the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 20096;

• “trade union” (“undeb llafur”) has the meaning assigned to it in section 1 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 19927.

In regulation 24—

• “public body” (“corff cyhoeddus”) includes—

  1. a

     any body established for the purposes of carrying on, under national ownership, any industry or part of any industry or undertaking; and

  2. b

     the governing body of any university, university college or college, school or hall of a university;

• “securities” “(gwarannau”) means—

  1. a

     shares or debentures, whether constituting a charge on the assets of the company or other body or not, or rights or interests in any shares or such debentures, or

  2. b

     rights (whether actual or contingent) in respect of money lent to or deposited with any industrial and provident society or building society;

• “shares” (“cyfranddaliadau”) means shares in the share capital of a company or other body or the stock of a company or other body.

Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations, and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.