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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/schedule-7/paragraph-18C",
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  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
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  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/18C",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18C",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If a director of a public benefit corporation has in any way a direct or indirect interest in a proposed transaction or arrangement with the corporation, the director must declare the nature and extent of that interest to the other directors.\n(2) If a declaration under this paragraph proves to be, or becomes, inaccurate or incomplete, a further declaration must be made.\n(3) Any declaration required by this paragraph must be made before the corporation enters into the transaction or arrangement.\n(4) This paragraph does not require a declaration of an interest of which the director is not aware or where the director is not aware of the transaction or arrangement in question.\n(5) A director need not declare an interest—\n(a) if it cannot reasonably be regarded as likely to give rise to a conflict of interest;\n(b) if, or to the extent that, the directors are already aware of it;\n(c) if, or to the extent that, it concerns terms of the director's appointment that have been or are to be considered—\n(i) by a meeting of the board of directors, or\n(ii) by a committee of the directors appointed for the purpose under the constitution.",
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      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 18C inserted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 152(3), 306(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
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