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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-boards-membership-and-procedure-scotland-regulations-2001/schedule/paragraph-5",
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  "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": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Conduct of meetings",
  "text": "(1) At any meeting of a committee the chairperson of that committee, if present, shall preside.\n(2) If both the chairperson and vice-chairperson (if any) are absent from a meeting of the Board a member, 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, chosen at the meeting by the members present shall preside.\n(3) If both the chairperson and vice-chairperson (if any) of a committee are absent from a meeting of that committee a member of the committee chosen at the meeting by the other members present shall preside.\n(4) If it is necessary or expedient to do so a meeting may be adjourned to another day, time and place.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2016/3",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2016/3",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/302/schedule/paragraph/5",
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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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