{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mid-eastern-combined-fire-services-area-administration-scheme-order-1995/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mid-eastern-combined-fire-services-area-administration-scheme-order-1995/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2637",
  "legislation_title": "The Mid Eastern Combined Fire Services Area Administration Scheme Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mid-eastern-combined-fire-services-area-administration-scheme-order-1995",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Convener and vice-convener",
  "text": "(1) The board shall appoint from its membership a convener and one or more vice-conveners, but it shall not be competent for—\n(a) the convener to be a member of a constituent authority of which any vice-convener is a member; or\n(b) a vice-convener to be a member of the constituent authority of which any other vice-convener is a member.\n(2) The convener and any vice-convener shall each hold office from the date of his appointment until the next 3 yearly appointment of members of the board, except where—\n(a) his appointment is terminated by the board; or\n(b) he ceases to be a member of the board.\n(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4) below, the convener, or in his absence, a vice-convener, shall preside at all meetings of the board.\n(4) If all of the persons appointed under sub-paragraph (1) above are absent from any meeting of the board the members present shall appoint a substitute convener to preside at that meeting.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2637/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:00:16.088054+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."
}