{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-access-forums-england-regulations-2002/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-access-forums-england-regulations-2002/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1836",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Access Forums (England) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-access-forums-england-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Terms of membership",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following paragraphs of this regulation, the terms of appointment of a member of a local access forum shall be determined by the appointing authority and notified to him in writing.\n(2) A member of a local access forum shall be appointed for not less than one and not more than three years.\n(3) A member of a local access forum may resign by notice in writing to the appointing authority which appointed him.\n(4) An appointing authority—\n(a) shall terminate the appointment of a member of a local access forum if they are satisfied that he has become a member of a district or county council or National Park authority and, as a result, regulation 4(2) is not complied with, and\n(b) may terminate the appointment of a member of a forum if—\n(i) without the consent of the appointing authority, he has been absent from all meetings of the forum during a period of one year, or\n(ii) he has failed to comply with regulation 6(7).\n(5) An appointing authority may re-appoint a person who ceases to be a member of a local access forum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1836/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:52:36.509921+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."
}