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30 Appointment of Principal Officer and Clinical Governance Officer by licensee

24.—(1) Every licensee must appoint a suitably qualified individual as the licensee’s Principal Officer.

(2) Every licensee that is authorised by a licence to provide a prescribed licensable healthcare service must appoint one or more suitably qualified individuals as the licensee’s Clinical Governance Officer or Clinical Governance Officers to be responsible for the clinical and technical matters relating to the prescribed licensable healthcare service, and is or are to perform the functions in relation to the licensee, as may be prescribed.

(3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), an individual is a suitably qualified individual if the individual—
 * (a) is a suitable person to act as the licensee’s Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer, as the case may be; and
 * (b) possesses the skills and competencies that are prescribed for the performance of the functions and duties of the licensee’s Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer, as the case may be.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), different skills and competencies may be prescribed in respect of different licensable healthcare services.

(5) Every licensee must, within the prescribed period, notify the Director of the appointments in subsections (1) and (2) (if applicable), and any change in any of the appointments.

(6) A notification of any change in an appointment under subsection (5) must be made in the form and manner that the Director requires.

(7) The licensee must ensure that—
 * (a) the individual the licensee appoints as Principal Officer is suitably qualified to act as Principal Officer at all times during the term of the individual’s appointment and the term of the licensee’s licence; and