{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-boards-membership-and-procedure-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-boards-membership-and-procedure-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2001/302",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-boards-membership-and-procedure-scotland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Meetings and minutes",
  "text": "(1) The meetings and proceedings of the Board shall be conducted in accordance with standing orders made pursuant to regulation 9.\n(2) At every meeting of a Board, the chairperson, if present, shall preside.\n(3) If the chairperson is absent from any meeting, the vice-chairperson, if present, shall preside, and if the chairperson and vice-chairperson are both absent, the members present at the meeting shall elect from among themselves a person, who does not also hold the position of Chief Officer, Chief Finance Officer or Director of Public Health of a Board, or Chief Officer of a National Health Service trust, to act as chairperson for that meeting.\n(4) All acts of, and all questions coming and arising before, a Board shall be done and decided by a majority of the members of the Board present and voting at a meeting of the Board and, in the case of an equality of votes, the person presiding at the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.\n(5) The proceedings of a Board or of any committee shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in its membership or by any defect in the appointment of any member of such committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/108",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2016/3",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/302/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:45:27.659869+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."
}