National Health Service (Remuneration and Conditions of Service) Regulations 1991
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1991 No. 481
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The National Health Service (Remuneration and Conditions of Service) Regulations 1991
Made 6th March 1991
Laid before Parliament 11th March 1991
Coming into force 1st April 1991
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred by paragraph 10(1) of Schedule 5 to the National Health Service Act 19771and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and after consultation in accordance with paragraph 11(1) of that Schedule with bodies recognised by him as representing persons likely to be affected by these Regulations, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Remuneration and Conditions of Service) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–
“the 1977 Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;
“authority” means a Regional or District Health Authority, a special health authority or a Family Health Services Authority2;
“conditions of service” does not include remuneration;
“direction” means a direction given by the Secretary of State in exercise of a power conferred by the 1977 Act;
“negotiations” in relation to a class of officer means negotiations taking place within a body recognised by the Secretary of State as being proper for the purposes of negotiating remuneration and conditions of service for that class of officer;
“officer” means an officer of an authority.
(3) Where a minimum or a maximum remuneration is agreed and approved for a class of officer, or is determined for an officer or a class of officer, references in regulation 2 of these Regulations to an officer’s remuneration being that agreed and approved or that determined are to his remuneration being no less than any minimum remuneration, and no more than any maximum remuneration, applicable to his case.
Remuneration of officers
2. Subject to any directions, remuneration, whether or not paid out of money provided by Parliament–
(a) of an officer who belongs to a class of officer in respect of which remuneration has been agreed in negotiations and approved by the Secretary of State, shall be the remuneration so agreed and approved;
(b) of an officer for whom, or for whose class, the Secretary of State has...
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