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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/schedule-8/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/7",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person holds and vacates office as a non-executive member of Monitor in accordance with that person's terms of appointment.\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 his or her 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 not be appointed as a non-executive member for a period of more than four years.\n(6) A person who ceases to be a non-executive member is eligible for re-appointment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 3 in force at 1.11.2012 by S.I. 2012/2657, art. 2(2)"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:58.603352+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."
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