# Health and Care Act 2022, Paragraph 7: Non-executive members: suspension from office

Extent: E+W

(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.
(2) Appointment as interim chair is for a term not exceeding the shorter of—
(a) the period ending with either—
(i) the appointment of a new chair, or
(ii) the revocation or expiry of the existing chair’s suspension, and
(b) the remainder of the interim chair’s term as a non-executive member.
(3) Sub-paragraph (4) applies if—
(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
(b) that person is to be re-appointed as a non-executive member.
(4) The person may be re-appointed as interim chair for a further term determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (2).
(5) That further term must begin at the end of the person’s initial term as interim chair.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/31/schedule/13/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/schedule-13/paragraph-7
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