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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-quality-commission-membership-regulations-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1479",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Quality Commission (Membership) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-quality-commission-membership-regulations-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations revoke and replace the Care Quality Commission (Membership) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2252) and make provision concerning membership of the Care Quality Commission established by section 1(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c.14).\nIn particular they make provision for the maximum and minimum number of members (regulation 2), tenure of office of non-executive members (regulation 3), disqualification from holding office as a non-executive member (regulations 4 and 5 and the Schedule, which contains the grounds for disqualification), termination of the tenure of office of a non-executive member (regulation 6) and suspension from office of non-executive members (regulation 7).\nRegulation 8 revokes S.I. 2008/2252, the Care Quality Commission (Membership) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2547) and the Care Quality Commission (Membership) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2157), which have become spent on the revocation of S.I. 2008/2252. S.I. 2011/2547 made amendments to S.I. 2008/2252 in respect of the minimum and maximum number of members who may be appointed to the Commission and grounds for disqualification of members. S.I. 2013/2157 made amendments to S.I. 2008/2252 in respect of the maximum number of members who may be appointed to the Commission.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1479/note",
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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."
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