Health Service Executive (Governance) Act 2019

Amendment of section 35 of Principal Act

21. Section 35 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (1), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):

“(b) the structure of the Executive, including the roles and responsibilities of the Board and the chief executive officer,”,

(b) in subsection (2), by the substitution of “Subject to subsection (2A), the Executive shall” for “The Executive shall”, and

(c) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2):

“(2A) The Executive shall, as soon as practicable after the commencement of section 21 of the Health Service Executive (Governance) Act 2019 and without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2), revise the code of governance to take account of the amendment made to subsection (1) by that section.”.