{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1996/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1996/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/707",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Appointment of vice-chairman",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the chairman and members of an Authority may appoint one of their number, who is not an officer member of the Authority, to be vice-chairman, for such period, not exceeding the remainder of his term as a member of the Authority, as they may specify on appointing him.\n(2) Any member so appointed may at any time resign from the office of vice-chairman by giving notice in writing to the chairman.\n(3) The date on which a resignation by notice given pursuant to paragraph (2) shall take effect shall be—\n(a) where a date is specified in the notice as being that on which the resignation is to take effect, that date; and\n(b) in any other case, the date on which the notice is received by the chairman.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/2538",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Bodies (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2200",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/707/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:33.022475+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."
}