{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/19",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Health Boards, the Common Services Agency and state hospitals.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, at the end of the day appointed for the coming into force of this subsection, any person who is a member of—\n(a) a Health Board;\n(b) the management committee of the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service; or\n(c) a State Hospital Management Committee within the meaning of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984,\nshall cease to be such a member.\n(2) Subsection (1) above does not apply to a person holding office as chairman of a Health Board or of a committee mentioned in subsection (1)(b) or (c) above.\n(3) Schedule 1 (Health Boards) and Schedule 5 (Common Services Agency) to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (in this Part of this Act referred to as “the 1978 Act”) and Schedule 1 to the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (State Hospital Management Committees) shall be amended in accordance with Schedule 5 to this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1984 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1984 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 wholly in force; s. 27 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 67(2); s. 27(3) in force at 17.9.1990 and s. 27(1)(2) in force for certain purposes at 31.3.1991 and at 30.6.1992 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 1990/1793, art. 2(1)(3)(5), Sch. I (art. 2(5) of that S.I. amended (13.3.1992) by S.I. 1992/799, art. 2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/19/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:43:11.905057+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."
}