{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/schedule-A1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/schedule-A1/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/A1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Non-executive members: tenure",
  "text": "(1) A person holds and vacates office as a non-executive member of NHS England in accordance with that person’s terms of appointment.\n(2) A person may at any time resign from office as a non-executive member by giving notice to the Secretary of State.\n(3) The Secretary of State may at any time remove a person from office as a non-executive member on any of the following grounds—\n(a) incapacity,\n(b) misbehaviour, or\n(c) failure to carry out his or her duties as a non-executive member.\n(4) The Secretary of State may suspend a person from office as a non-executive member if it appears to the Secretary of State that there are or may be grounds to remove that person from office under sub-paragraph (3).\n(5) A person may not be appointed as a non-executive member for a period of more than four years.\n(6) A person who ceases to be a non-executive member is eligible for re-appointment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 inserted (1.10.2012 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 9(2), 306(4), Sch. 1 (with Sch. 6 para. 2); S.I. 2012/1831, art. 2(2) (with art. 3(3)); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 1 para. 1(1)(2); 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/A1/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."
}