{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-institutions-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-institutions-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1715",
  "legislation_title": "The Central Institutions (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-institutions-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Period of office of governors",
  "text": "(1) Any governor ex officio specified in regulation 5(1)(b) shall hold the office of such a governor for the duration of his tenure of the office by virtue of which he is such a governor.\n(2) Any governor appointed to the governing body of a central institution under regulation 5(1)(a) or (c) or co-opted to it under regulation 6 may be further appointed or co-opted to it on expiry of his term of office, if he is still eligible in accordance with these Regulations and his appointment is not precluded by paragraph (3).\n(3) A person shall not be appointed or co-opted to a governing body where his term of office, if aggregated with any previous terms of office, would cause him to serve for more than 12 years as a governor in that body: Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to the first appointment of governors made by the Secretary of State under regulation 5(2).\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), a term of office shall include any term of office as a governor, whether served before or after the coming into force of these Regulations, and whether taken by appointment under regulation 5(1)(a) or (c) or by co-option under regulation 6, or otherwise, but not any term of office served ex officio.\n(5) The governing body of each central institution shall make rules for the duration of the terms of office of governors appointed under regulation 5(1)(a) or (c) or co-opted under regulation 6, which rules may be revoked and replaced, or varied, by further rules made by the governing body.\nProvided that:\n(a) no governor shall be appointed or co-opted for a term of office of more than 4 years;\n(b) no variation or revocation of rules for the duration of the terms of office of governors shall have effect so as to vary or terminate the period of office of any person who is a governor at the time when said variation or revocation takes effect;\n(c) such rules shall not apply to the first term of office of governors appointed by the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 5(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1715/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:07.014582+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."
}