Health (Eastern Regional Health Authority) Act, 1999
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Area chief executives. |
17.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Authority shall, pursuant to a recommendation from the Local Appointments Commissioners, appoint 3 persons to be chief executive officers of the Area Health Boards, and shall assign them to the 3 Area Health Boards as it sees fit and each of these persons shall be known and in this Act referred to as an area chief executive. | |
(2) The Minister may, before the establishment day, pursuant to a recommendation from the Local Appointments Commissioners, appoint 3 persons to be area chief executives of the Area Health Boards, and shall assign them to the 3 Area Health Boards as he or she sees fit, and those persons shall be deemed to have been so appointed on the establishment day. | ||
(3) A person appointed under subsection (1) or (2) shall hold office for a period not exceeding 7 years under a contract of service in writing with the Authority upon such terms and conditions (including terms and conditions relating to remuneration and expenses) as may be determined by the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and specified in the contract. | ||
(4) An area chief executive shall act as the chief executive officer of the Area Health Board. | ||
(5) Where the Authority delegates a function to an Area Health Board in accordance with section 9 , the corresponding executive functions of the Regional Chief Executive shall be deemed to have been delegated to the area chief executive of that Area Health Board. | ||
(6) The Regional Chief Executive shall delegate in writing to each area chief executive such of his or her functions in relation to the provision of services within the functional area of the relevant Area Health Board which, immediately before the establishment day, were performed by the chief executive officer of the Eastern Health Board. | ||
(7) Notwithstanding subsection (6), the Regional Chief Executive may, from time to time, and where he or she considers such action would secure the most beneficial, effective and efficient use of resources, provide in writing for such of his or her functions as he or she may determine to be exerciseable in relation to the whole or part of the Authority's functional area by a specified area chief executive and where the Regional Chief Executive does so, any delegation made under subsection (6) in relation to those functions shall be revoked. | ||
(8) An area chief executive shall exercise the functions delegated to him or her under this section in accordance with such general directions as may from time to time be given by the Regional Chief Executive. | ||
(9) An area chief executive may delegate, in accordance with subsections (2) to (5) of section 16 of the Principal Act, his or her functions to another member of the staff of the Authority who has been assigned to the Area Health Board concerned and references therein to the chief executive officer of a health board shall be construed for the purposes of this subsection as references to an area chief executive. | ||
(10) An area chief executive may be removed from office by the Authority, with the consent of the Minister, in accordance with the terms and conditions of his or her contract of service. | ||
(11) The appointment under subsection (1) and the removal under subsection (10) of an area chief executive shall be reserved functions of the Authority. |