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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/635",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Appointment of members and tenure of office",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), the chairman and other members of the Medical Practices Committee shall be appointed for a period of three years expiring on 31st March in any year.\n(2) A member may be re-appointed on the expiration of his term of office.\n(3) A member may resign by giving notice in writing to the Secretary of State, and a member who is appointed as being a person actively engaged in medical practice shall be deemed to have resigned if he ceases to be so engaged.\n(4) In the case of a vacancy in membership occasioned by death or by resignation (including deemed resignation under paragraph (3)), a person shall be appointed to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the period for which his predecessor was appointed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replaced (By regs.10-18L (Pt.III))",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2838",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/554",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/916",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/635/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:54.472536+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."
}