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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-amendment-england-regulations-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/556",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Amendment (England) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-amendment-england-regulations-2002",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend regulations 2 and 8 of the Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/707) (“the principal Regulations”), which make provision relating to the membership and procedure of Health Authorities, and, in relation to Health Authorities in England—\n(a) substitute a new regulation 2(2), to provide that all Health Authorities shall have a non-officer member who holds a post in a higher education institution which provides education leading to registration as a doctor, dentist, pharmacist, or to registration in a register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council or the Health Professions Council, and, in consequence, amend regulations 1(2) and 8(8), and omit Schedule 1;\n(b) amend regulation 10(4) and (5), to substitute for the reference to a person holding a post in a university, a reference to a person holding a post in a higher education institution, or a post in a university which is not such an institution; and\n(c) amend regulation 2(4) and (5), to remove the requirement for one of the officer members of an Authority to hold the office of director of public health.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/556/note",
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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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