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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/schedule-1/paragraph-3A",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/14",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The non-executive members must—\n(a) appoint an executive member to be the Chief Inspector of Hospitals,\n(b) appoint an executive member to be the Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, and\n(c) appoint an executive member to be the Chief Inspector of General Practice.\n(2) Each of those executive members is to exercise such functions of the Commission on its behalf as it determines.\n(3) When exercising functions under sub-paragraph (2), an executive member must have regard to the importance of safeguarding and promoting the Commission's independence from the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3A and cross-heading inserted (1.10.2014) by Care Act 2014 (c. 23), ss. 89, 127(1); S.I. 2014/2473, art. 3(d)"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}