Nurses and Midwives Act 2011
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PART 3 Statement of Strategy, Business Plan and Annual Report of Board | ||
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Board to prepare and submit statement of strategy. |
18.— (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (6), the Board shall— | |
(a) prepare and adopt a statement of strategy for the term of office of the Board (or, as the case requires, the remaining term of office of the Board), and | ||
(b) submit the statement to the Minister— | ||
(i) not later than 6 months after the commencement of this subsection, | ||
(ii) not later than 6 months after the appointment of a new Minister having charge of the Department of Health if that Minister requests that a statement of strategy be submitted, | ||
(iii) not later than 6 months of the beginning of the term of office of each new Board appointed under section 22 . | ||
(2) The Board shall prepare a statement of strategy in a form and manner in accordance with any directions issued by the Minister and shall ensure that the statement specifies— | ||
(a) the key objectives of the Board for the period to which the statement relates and the strategies for achieving those objectives, | ||
(b) the manner in which the Board proposes to measure its achievement of those objectives, and | ||
(c) the uses for which the Board proposes to apply its resources. | ||
(3) The Board shall, in preparing the statement of strategy, have regard to the policies of the Government or a Minister of the Government to the extent that those policies may affect or relate to the functions of the Board. | ||
(4) The Board shall ensure that— | ||
(a) a draft of the statement of strategy that it proposes to adopt under this section is published in the prescribed manner, not later than 2 months before the time when the Board is to submit a statement of strategy to the Minister under subsection (1)(b), | ||
(b) with the draft is published an invitation to members of the public, any organisation and any body to comment on the draft before a date, which shall not be earlier than one month after the date of the publication, which the Board specifies in the invitation, and | ||
(c) it considers any comments received under paragraph (b) in preparing the statement of strategy that it submits to the Minister under this section. | ||
(5) The Minister may direct the Board to amend a statement of strategy submitted to the Minister if, in the Minister’s opinion, the statement— | ||
(a) does not contain any information required under subsection (2), | ||
(b) does not comply in any other respect with subsection (2), or | ||
(c) has been prepared without regard to the policies referred to in subsection (3). | ||
(6) The Board shall comply with a direction given to it under subsection (5) within the period, if any, specified in the direction, being a period reasonable in the circumstances. | ||
(7) The Board may amend an adopted statement of strategy and, in any such case— | ||
(a) subsections (2) to (6) shall, with all necessary modifications, apply to the preparation of the amended statement as they apply to a statement of strategy prepared under subsection (1), and | ||
(b) the Board shall adopt the amended statement and submit it to the Minister not later than 3 weeks after the date on which the Board adopted the amended statement. | ||
(8) Nothing in a statement of strategy is to be construed as preventing the Board from, or limiting the Board in, performing its functions. |