{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/schedule-13/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/schedule-13/paragraph-7.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/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Non-executive members: suspension from office",
  "text": "(1) Where a person is suspended from office as the chair under paragraph 5(4), the Secretary of State may appoint a non-executive member as interim chair to exercise the chair’s functions.\n(2) Appointment as interim chair is for a term not exceeding the shorter of—\n(a) the period ending with either—\n(i) the appointment of a new chair, or\n(ii) the revocation or expiry of the existing chair’s suspension, and\n(b) the remainder of the interim chair’s term as a non-executive member.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (4) applies if—\n(a) a person’s initial term as interim chair is to cease as a result of the expiry of the person’s initial term as a non-executive member, and\n(b) that person is to be re-appointed as a non-executive member.\n(4) The person may be re-appointed as interim chair for a further term determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (2).\n(5) That further term must begin at the end of the person’s initial term as interim chair.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 13 para. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 186(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 13 para. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}