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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-equality-age-regulations-2006/schedule-8/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-equality-age-regulations-2006/schedule-8/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110742664",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-equality-age-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "The Health Service Commissioners Act 1993",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 (the English Commissioner) is amended in accordance with this paragraph.\n(2) For paragraph 1 (appointment of Commissioners) substitute the following new paragraphs—\n“1. Her Majesty may by Letters Patent appoint a person to be the Commissioner.\n1A. Subject to paragraphs 1C and 1D a person appointed to be the Commissioner shall hold office until the end of the period for which he is appointed.\n1B. That period must be not more than seven years.\n1C. A person appointed to be the Commissioner may be relieved of office by Her Majesty at his own request.\n1D. A person appointed to be the Commissioner may be removed from office by Her Majesty, on the ground of misbehaviour, in consequence of Addresses from both Houses of Parliament.\n1E. A person appointed to be the Commissioner is not eligible for re-appointment.”.\n(3) In paragraph 2 (appointment of acting Commissioners)—\n(a) after sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) A person appointed to act as the Commissioner (“an acting Commissioner”) may have held office as the Commissioner.\n(1B) A person appointed as an acting Commissioner is eligible for appointment as the Commissioner unless he has already held office as the Commissioner.”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2) for the words “under this paragraph” substitute “as acting Commissioner,”; and\n(c) for sub-paragraph (3), substitute—\n“(3) A person appointed as an acting Commissioner shall, while he holds office, be treated for all purposes, except for the purposes of paragraphs 1, 4 to 10 and this paragraph, as the Commissioner.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The schedule heading was amended by the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), section 112, and Schedule 10, paragraph 16(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110742664/schedule/8/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:21:16.444409+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."
}