{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospital-authorities-functions-and-membership-regulations-1996/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospital-authorities-functions-and-membership-regulations-1996/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Termination and suspension of membership of officer members",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4) below, an officer member, other than the chief executive and director of finance, shall cease to be a member on the date he ceases to be an officer of the hospital authority.\n(2) If the non-officer members are of the opinion that it is not in the interests of the hospital authority of which they are members, for an officer member, other than the chief executive and director of finance, to continue as a member they shall terminate his membership without notice.\n(3) If an officer member is suspended from his post in the hospital authority he shall be suspended from performing the functions of a member of the hospital authority for the period during which he is suspended.\n(4) An officer member other than the chief executive or director of finance may resign from his membership of a hospital authority by giving notice in writing to the appointing authority and his resignation shall take effect from the date specified in the notice or if there is no such date specified from the date that the appointing authority receives the notice.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}