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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospital-authorities-functions-and-membership-regulations-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), no business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum of five members are present including at least two non-officer members and one officer member.\n(2) The chairman and at least two non-officer members shall be present at the meeting of the hospital authority which is convened for the purpose of appointing a person to act as the first chief executive.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/489/schedule/2/paragraph/6",
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  },
  "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."
}