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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-quality-commission-healthwatch-england-committee-regulations-2012/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1640",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Quality Commission (Healthwatch England Committee) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-quality-commission-healthwatch-england-committee-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Cessation of disqualification",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person who is disqualified under paragraph 4 or 6 of Schedule 2 may, after the expiry of a period of two years beginning on the date of the dismissal or removal, apply in writing to the chair to remove the disqualification, and the chair may direct that the disqualification is to cease.\n(2) Where the chair refuses an application to remove a disqualification, no further application may be made by that person until the expiry of a period of two years beginning on the date of the application, and this paragraph applies to any subsequent application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1640/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:27:46.487697+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."
}