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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-services-agency-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1991/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/564",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Services Agency (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-services-agency-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which come into effect on 1st April 1991, make provision in relation to the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service (“the Agency”) which is established under section 10 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 and in particular for the membership and procedure of the Management Committee of the Agency (“the Committee”) which is constituted in terms of schedule 5 to the 1978 Act.\nRegulation 2 provides that the term of office of members of the Committee should not exceed 4 years as determined by the Secretary of State and makes provision with regard to the remuneration of members.\nRegulation 3 deals with resignation and removal of members and regulation 4 provides for the circumstances in which a person may be disqualified for being a member.\nRegulation 5 deals with the appointment of a vice-chairman and the regulation 6 makes provision for sub-committees of the Committee to be appointed and as to their composition.\nRegulation 7 makes provision for the meetings of the Committee and for its voting arrangements as well as for the submission of minutes to the Secretary of State.\nRegulation 8 makes provision with regard to the circumstances where there may be a conflict of interest involving a member of the Committee or of a sub-committee.\nRegulation 9 gives power to make standing orders regulating the establishment of sub-committees and for various other formal matters in the conduct of the business of the Committee and regulation 10 revokes the previous Regulations which made provision for the membership and procedure of the Committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/564/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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