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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1996/regulation-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/707",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1996",
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  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Appointment of committees and sub-committees",
  "text": "(1) Subject to such directions as may be given by the Secretary of State, an Authority may and, if directed by him, shall appoint committees of the Authority, or together with one or more other Authorities appoint joint committees consisting, in either case, wholly or partly of the chairman and members of the Authority or Authorities or wholly of persons who are not members of the Authority or Authorities in question.\n(2) A committee or joint committee appointed under this regulation may, subject to such directions as may be given by the Secretary of State or the Authority or Authorities, appoint sub-committees consisting wholly or partly of members of the committee or joint committee (whether or not they are members of the Authority or Authorities in question) or wholly of persons who are not members of the Authority or Authorities or the committee of the Authority or Authorities in question.\n(3) On a committee or joint committee appointed under paragraph (1), or a sub-committee appointed under paragraph (2), except a discipline committee, a service committee, a committee whose sole function is to advise the Authority or a medical audit committee, the majority of the members shall be persons who do not provide, or assist in providing, Part II services.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2621",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 1998"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2000/696",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2000"
    },
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      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1909",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2012"
    },
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      "type": "amended",
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      "affecting_title": "The Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Amendment (Wales) Regulations 1999"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2004/865",
      "affecting_title": "The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/562",
      "affecting_title": "The General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Abolition of the Dental Practice Board Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words added",
      "affecting": "wsi/2004/1016",
      "affecting_title": "The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2006/946",
      "affecting_title": "The General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1700",
      "affecting_title": "The Primary Ophthalmic Services Amendment, Transitional and Consequential Provisions Regulations 2008"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/707/regulation/14",
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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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