{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-education-and-improvement-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-education-and-improvement-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2017/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Education and Improvement Wales Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-education-and-improvement-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Powers of vice-chair",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if—\n(a) the chair is suspended under regulation 9 and a non-officer member is appointed to be vice-chair under regulation 11; or\n(b) a non-officer member is appointed to be vice-chair under regulation 10 and—\n(i) the office of chair is vacant for any reason; or\n(ii) the chair is unable to perform the duties of chair owing to illness, absence or any other cause.\n(2) Where this regulation applies—\n(a) the vice-chair is to act as chair until a new chair is appointed or the existing chair resumes the chair's duties (as the case may be); and\n(b) references in Schedule 2 to the chair are, for so long as there is no chair available to perform the duties of the chair, to be taken to include references to the vice-chair.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/909/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:30.514757+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."
}