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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/schedule-16/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/8",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) NICE may regulate its own procedure.\n(2) But regulations may make provision about procedures to be adopted by NICE for dealing with conflicts of interest of members of NICE or members of a committee or sub-committee.\n(3) The validity of any act of NICE is not affected by any vacancy among the members or by any defect in the appointment of a member.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 8 partly in force; Sch. 16 para. 8 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 306(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 8 in force at 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
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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."
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