{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/schedule-A1/paragraph-6",
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  "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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Suspension of non-executive members",
  "text": "(1) Where a person is suspended from office as the chair under paragraph 4(4), the Secretary of State may appoint a non-executive member as interim chair to exercise the chair’s functions.\n(2) Appointment as interim chair is for a term not exceeding the shorter of—\n(a) the period ending with either—\n(i) the appointment of a new chair, or\n(ii) the revocation or expiry of the existing chair’s suspension, and\n(b) the remainder of the interim chair’s term as a non-executive member.\n(3) A person who ceases to be the interim chair 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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/schedule/A1/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}