{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/schedule-13/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/schedule-13/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/31",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Care Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Non-executive members: tenure",
  "text": "(1) A person holds and vacates office as a non-executive member of the HSSIB in accordance with that person’s terms of appointment (subject to the following provisions of this paragraph).\n(2) A person may at any time resign from office as a non-executive member by giving notice to the Secretary of State.\n(3) The Secretary of State may at any time remove a person from office as a non-executive member on any of the following grounds—\n(a) incapacity,\n(b) misbehaviour, or\n(c) failure to carry out the person’s duties as a non-executive member.\n(4) The Secretary of State may suspend a person from office as a non-executive member if it appears to the Secretary of State that there are or may be grounds to remove the person from office under sub-paragraph (3).\n(5) A person may be appointed as a non-executive member for an initial term of up to three years.\n(6) A person who has been appointed as a non-executive member for an initial term may be re-appointed, but only for one further term of up to three years.\n(7) The further term must begin at the end of the initial term.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 13 para. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 186(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 13 para. 5 in force at 1.10.2023 by S.I. 2023/1035, reg. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/31/schedule/13/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:41.503468+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."
}