{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-blood-authority-regulations-1993/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-blood-authority-regulations-1993/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/586",
  "legislation_title": "The National Blood Authority Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-blood-authority-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Blood Authority Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“appointing authority” means—\n(a) in relation to the Chairman and any non-officer member of the Authority, the Secretary of State; and\n(b) in relation to any officer member other than the chief officer, a committee of the Authority comprising the Chairman, non-officer members and chief officer;\n“the Authority” means the National Blood Authority established by the Order;\n“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Authority;\n“chief officer” means the chief officer of the Authority;\n“member” means a member of the Authority other than the Chairman;\n“non-officer member” and “officer member” mean, respectively, a member who is not, and one who is, an officer of the Authority;\n“the Order” means the National Blood Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1993;\n“the 1990 Regulations” means the Regional and District Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/1331, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/586/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:02:31.364566+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."
}