{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chronically-sick-and-disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1978/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chronically-sick-and-disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1978/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/53",
  "legislation_title": "Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chronically-sick-and-disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1978",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Co-option of chronically sick or disabled persons by committees of Health and Social Services Board.",
  "text": "Where a Health and Social Services Board appoints a committee or sub-committee of the Board and the members of the committee or sub-committee include or may include persons who are not members of the Board, then in considering the appointment to the committee or sub-committee of such persons regard shall be had, if the committee or sub-committee is concerned with matters in which the chronically sick or disabled have special needs, to the desirability of appointing to the committee or sub-committee persons with experience of work among and of the needs of the chronically sick and disabled, and of the person or persons with that experience being or including a chronically sick or disabled person or persons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/53/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:21:27.216531+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."
}