{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/authorities-for-the-ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospitals-establishment-and-constitution-order-1996/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/488",
  "legislation_title": "The Authorities for the Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospitals (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/authorities-for-the-ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospitals-establishment-and-constitution-order-1996",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Constitution",
  "text": "(1) Each Authority shall consist of a chairman and eight or ten other members.\n(2) The chairman shall not be an officer of the Authority.\n(3) The other members shall comprise an equal number of persons who are, and persons who are not, officers of the Authority.\n(4) The members who are officers of the Authority shall include—\n(a) the chief executive;\n(b) the director of finance;\n(c) a registered medical practitioner; and\n(d) a registered nurse.\n(5) Where more than one person is appointed jointly to an office in an Authority in relation to which an officer member is to be appointed, those persons shall become or be appointed as an officer member jointly, and shall count as one person for the purposes of this article.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/488/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:08.039094+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."
}