The Local Commissioning Groups (Membership) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009
These regulations make provision concerning the membership of the Local Commissioning Groups established by the Regional Health and Social Care Board under the provisions of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009. They prescribe that the Regional Board shall appoint 17 persons to each Local Commissioning Group (regulation 2(1)), specify the composition of members (regulation 2(2)) and prescribe that the general medical practitioner and general dental practitioner must practice within the area of the Local Commissioning Group, the district councillors must be members of councils within the area of the Local Commissioning Group, the voluntary representative members must be from voluntary organisations with an interest in health and social care within the area of the Local Commissioning Group, the pharmacist member must provide pharmaceutical services within the area of the Local Commissioning Group and that the nurse, social worker, public health medicine specialist and a chiropodist/podiatrist, dietician, occupational therapist, orthoptist, physiotherapist, radiographer or speech and language therapist registered under the Health Professions Order 2001 must be employees of the Regional Board or Regional Agency. The regulations also provide for the re-appointment, disqualification and cessation of disqualification for appointment of persons appointed by the Regional Health and Social Care Board under these regulations.