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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-constitution-membership-and-procedures-wales-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2007/953",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Health Boards (Constitution, Membership and Procedures) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-constitution-membership-and-procedures-wales-amendment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "After regulation 9 (Termination of appointment and suspension of non-officer members) of the principal Regulations insert the following —\n“Termination of appointment of chair or vice chair\n9A (1) If the Assembly determines that—\n(a) it is not in the interests of the health service in the area for which a Board acts; or\n(b) it is not conducive to the good management of a Board,\nfor a person appointed as a chair or vice chair of a Board to continue to hold that office, the Assembly may remove that person from that office.\n(2) If it comes to the notice of the Assembly that a person appointed as a chair or vice chair has become ineligible for appointment under Part I of Schedule 2 to these Regulations, the Assembly may remove that person from that office.\n(3) If it appears to the Assembly that a person appointed as a chair or vice chair has failed to comply with regulation 15, the Assembly may remove that person from that office.\n(4) If a person appointed as a chair or vice chair has failed to attend a meeting of the Board for a period of three months, the Assembly may terminate that person’s membership unless satisfied that—\n(a) the absence was due to a reasonable cause; and\n(b) the person will be able to attend such meetings within such period as the Assembly considers reasonable.\n(5) Where a person is appointed as vice chair in accordance with regulation 10 and that person has been removed from that office under any of the paragraphs above he or she may continue to be a non-officer member unless his or her membership is otherwise terminated by the Board.\n(6) Before making a decision to terminate the membership of a chair or vice chair under any of the paragraphs above, the Assembly may suspend the tenure of office of that chair or vice chair for such period as it considers reasonable.\n(7) A chair or vice chair whose membership is suspended under paragraph (5) may not perform the functions of any member of the Board.\n9B Any member may at any time resign his or her membership by notice in writing to the Board but subject to the terms of that person’s appointment.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/953/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:01:18.116874+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."
}