{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospital-authorities-functions-and-membership-regulations-1996/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospital-authorities-functions-and-membership-regulations-1996/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/489",
  "legislation_title": "The Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospital Authorities (Functions and Membership) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospital-authorities-functions-and-membership-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Appointment of committees and sub-committees",
  "text": "(1) Subject to such directions as may be given by the Secretary of State—\n(a) each hospital authority may (and if so directed by him shall) appoint committees of the hospital authority; and\n(b) such committees may appoint sub-committees.\n(2) Committees appointed under paragraph (1) may consist—\n(a) wholly or partly of members of the hospital authority; or\n(b) wholly or partly of persons who are not members of the hospital authority.\n(3) Sub-committees appointed under paragraph (1) by a committee may consist—\n(a) wholly or partly of members of that committee (whether or not they are members of the hospital authority); or\n(b) wholly or partly of persons who are not members of the hospital authority or that committee.\n(4) Where a member of the hospital authority is appointed as a member of a committee or a sub-committee—\n(a) his membership of the committee or sub-committee will cease on the termination or expiry of his tenure of office as a member of the hospital authority; and\n(b) on such cessation he will be eligible for appointment to the committee or sub-committee as a person who is not a member of the hospital authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/489/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:07.296336+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}