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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/good-food-nation-scotland-act-2022/schedule/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/good-food-nation-scotland-act-2022/schedule/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2022/5",
  "legislation_title": "Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/good-food-nation-scotland-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Early termination of membership",
  "text": "(1) A person’s membership of the Commission ends if—\n(a) the person resigns by written notice given to the Scottish Ministers,\n(b) the person becomes disqualified from being a member (see paragraph 17), or\n(c) the Scottish Ministers give the person written notice that the person is removed from the Commission.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers may remove a member of the Commission by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(c) only if they consider that the member is—\n(a) unfit to continue to be a member, or\n(b) unable to exercise the member’s functions.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 16 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 28(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 16 in force at 15.2.2024 by S.S.I. 2024/29, reg. 2(1)(2), sch. 1"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2022/5/schedule/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:22.969597+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."
}