{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospital-authorities-functions-and-membership-regulations-1996/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospital-authorities-functions-and-membership-regulations-1996/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Termination and suspension of membership of non-officer members",
  "text": "(1) A non-officer member may resign his office at any time by giving notice in writing to the Secretary of State and the resignation shall take effect from the date specified in the notice or if there is no such date specified from the date that the Secretary of State receives the notice.\n(2) If a non-officer member is appointed as chairman he will act as a member only in his capacity as chairman from the date that appointment takes effect.\n(3) If the Secretary of State is of the opinion that it is not in the interests of the hospital authority for a non-officer member to continue as a member he may terminate that member’s membership by giving him notice in writing to that effect.\n(4) The Secretary of State shall terminate the membership of a non-officer member who fails to attend a meeting of the hospital authority of which he is a member for six months unless he is satisfied that—\n(a) the absence was due to a reasonable cause; and\n(b) the non-officer member will be able to attend meetings within such period as the Secretary of State considers reasonable.\n(5) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that a non-officer member has failed to comply with regulation 15(1) (disability etc. on account of pecuniary interest) he may forthwith terminate that member’s membership.\n(6) Where a person has been appointed as a non-officer member and—\n(a) he becomes disqualified from membership under regulation 8 (disqualification for appointment) the Secretary of State shall, when this disqualification comes to his attention, forthwith terminate his membership; or\n(b) it comes to the attention of the Secretary of State that he was so disqualified when he was appointed the Secretary of State shall forthwith notify him in writing that he was not duly appointed,\nand upon receipt of such a notification his membership (if any) shall terminate and he shall cease to act as a member.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2991",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/489/regulation/7",
    "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."
}