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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-services-agency-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1991/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-services-agency-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1991/regulation-1.json",
  "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": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Common Services Agency (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n(a) “the Act” means the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;\n(b) “Board” means a Health Board and includes a Special Health Board;\n(c) “the Committee” means the management committee constituted in accordance with paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 of the Act;\n(d) “member” means a member of the committee and includes the chairman and “members” shall be construed accordingly;\n(e) “contract” includes any arrangement including an NHS contract;\n(f) “officer” includes employee.\n(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations and a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 to the Act was amended by the 1990 Act, Schedule 5, paragraph 9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "ssi/2025/387",
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      "affecting_title": "The Common Services Agency (Membership and Procedure) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/23",
      "affecting_title": "The NHS Education for Scotland and the Common Services Agency (Transfer of Staff) Regulations 2026"
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      "affecting": "ssi/2011/211",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2011"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/564/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:48:46.955398+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."
}