{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/schedule-1B/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/schedule-1B/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/1B/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Membership: general",
  "text": "The constitution must prohibit a person from appointing someone as a member (“the candidate”) if they consider that the appointment could reasonably be regarded as undermining the independence of the health service because of the candidate’s involvement with the private healthcare sector or otherwise.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1B inserted (9.5.2022 but only for the insertion of Sch. 1B Pt. 1, 1.7.2022 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 2 para. 1; S.I. 2022/515, reg. 2(e); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/schedule/1B/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:55.183741+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."
}