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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-fire-and-rescue-services-northern-ireland-order-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110800257",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-fire-and-rescue-services-northern-ireland-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Board shall consist of the following members—\n(a) a chairman appointed by the Department;\n(b) the Chief Fire and Rescue Officer; and\n(c) 10 other members appointed by the Department.\n(2) Persons appointed under sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (c) shall be referred to as “non-executive members”.\n(3) In the absence of the chairman, the Board may, with the approval of the Department, appoint one of the members mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c) as vice-chairman of the Board for such a period, not exceeding the remainder of his term as a non-executive member, as it may specify on appointing him.\n(4) Of the members appointed under sub-paragraph (1)(c), 4 shall be members of district councils—\n(a) appointed from nominations made by such associations or bodies representative of district councils as appear to the Department to be desirable; or\n(b) if the associations or bodies referred to in paragraph (a) fail to make such nominations within a reasonable time, appointed after consultation with such district councils as appear to the Department to be desirable.\n(5) In appointing a person to fill a casual vacancy in the non-executive membership of the Board, the Department shall, where the member being replaced was nominated under sub-paragraph (4) or appointed after such consultation as is mentioned in that sub-paragraph, appoint a person in accordance with that sub-paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110800257/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:05.391364+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."
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