{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-61.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Representative membership",
  "text": "(1) An NHS foundation trust must take steps to secure that (taken as a whole) the actual membership of any public constituency and (if there is one) of the patients' constituency is representative of those eligible for such membership.\n(2) In deciding which areas are to be areas for public constituencies, or in deciding whether there is to be a patients' constituency, an NHS foundation trust must have regard to the need for those eligible for such membership to be representative of those to whom the trust provides services.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 61(1): s. 61 renumbered as s. 61(1) (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 153(1), 306(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 61(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 153(1), 306(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 61(2) inserted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 153(2), 306(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/61",
    "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."
}