{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-and-rights-of-way-act-2000/schedule-13/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-and-rights-of-way-act-2000/schedule-13/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/37",
  "legislation_title": "Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-and-rights-of-way-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The members of a conservation board shall elect, from amongst their members, both a chairman and a deputy chairman of the board.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), the chairman and deputy chairman of a conservation board shall be elected for a period not exceeding one year; but a person so elected shall, on ceasing to hold office at the end of his term of office as chairman or deputy chairman, be eligible for re-election.\n(3) A person shall cease to hold office as chairman or deputy chairman of a conservation board if he ceases to be a member of the board.\n(4) Where a vacancy occurs in the office of chairman or deputy chairman of a conservation board, it shall be the duty of the members of that board to secure that the vacancy is filled as soon as possible.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 13 para. 7 wholly in force at 1.5.2001; Sch. 13 para. 7 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 103(3); Sch. 13 para. 7 in force for E. at 1.4.2001 by S.I. 2001/114, art. 2(2)(e); Sch. 13 para. 7 in force for W. at 1.5.2001 by S.I. 2001/1410, art. 2(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/37/schedule/13/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:34.149457+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."
}