{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1996/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1996/regulation-13.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/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Powers of vice-chairman",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) a member of an Authority is appointed to be vice-chairman under regulation 12, and\n(b) the chairman of the Authority has died or has ceased to hold office, or is unable to perform his duties as chairman owing to illness, absence from England and Wales or any other cause,\nthe vice-chairman shall act as chairman until a new chairman is appointed or the existing chairman resumes his duties, as the case may be; and references to the chairman in Schedule 3 shall, so long as there is no chairman able to perform his duties, be taken to include references to the vice-chairman.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "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/13",
    "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."
}