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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-amendment-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/696",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-amendment-regulations-2000",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make amendments to regulations concerning the membership and procedure of Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities. The amendments apply to Health Authorities in England and to Special Health Authorities.\nRegulations 2 to 5 make amendments to the Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”) consequential upon the establishment of Primary Care Trusts. In particular they provide for the definition of “health service body” to include a reference to Primary Care Trusts (regulation 2), for the chairmen, members and officers of a Primary Care Trust to be disqualified for appointment as the chairman or a member of a Health Authority unless they hold certain part-time posts (regulation 3), for the appointment of a joint committee by a Health Authority together with one or more Primary Care Trusts, as well as other Authorities (regulation 4), and for the meetings and proceedings of such a joint committee (regulation 5).\nRegulation 6 amends Schedule 2 to the 1996 Regulations so as to provide that the chairman and members of the Health Development Agency are not disqualified for appointment as the chairman or a member of a Health Authority.\nRegulation 7 and the Schedule to these Regulations make amendments to various regulations relating to the membership and procedure of Special Health Authorities. In particular, they amend the definition of “health service body” in various such regulations, to include a reference to Primary Care Trusts (paragraphs 1 to 4, 6, 7(a) and 8). Paragraph 5 makes an amendment to the regulations relating to the Microbiological Research Authority consequential upon the amendment to regulations 14 and 15 of the 1996 Regulations by regulations 4 and 5. Paragraph (b) makes amendments to the regulations relating to the membership and procedure of the National Health Service Litigation Authority to provide that the chairman and members of a Primary Care Trust are disqualified for appointment as the chairman or a member of the Authority, and to require the Secretary of State to terminate the tenure of office of a chairman or a non-officer member of the Authority if he fails, without reasonable excuse, to attend a meeting of the Authority for three months.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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