New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

HEALTH SERVICES REGULATION 2008 - REG 19

19 Transitional provision relating to appointment of first board of SCHN

(1) The Minister may appoint more than 13 members (but no more than 20 members) to the first board of the SCHN.

Note: Section 52F of the Act (which applies Division 2 of Part 2 of Chapter 3 of the Act to the boards of specialty network governed health corporations) operates to provide for the boards of such corporations to be constituted by no more than 13 members. However, clause 91 of Schedule 7 to the Act enables the regulations to make different transitional provision for the board of the SCHN (including in relation to the maximum number of members of its board).

(2) If more than 13 members are appointed to the first board of the SCHN, each additional member appointed must be an existing council member of the SCHN.

(3) Nothing in this clause prevents existing council members of the SCHN being appointed to any or all of the other positions on the first board of the SCHN.

(3A) The term of office of a member of the first board of the SCHN is taken (despite anything to the contrary in the member’s instrument of appointment) to expire at the end of 30 March 2012 if the member:

(a) held office as a member of the board of the SCHN immediately before the commencement of the Health Services Amendment (SCHN Board Term Extension) Regulation 2011 , and

(b) was an existing council member of the SCHN immediately before his or her appointment as a member of the board of the SCHN.

(4) In this clause, "existing council member" of the SCHN and "SCHN" have the same meanings as they have in clause 91 of Schedule 7 to the Act.