{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/94",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Appointment, term of office and cessation of office of the chair",
  "text": "(1) The scheme manager is to appoint the chair of the Board.\n(2) If the person appointed is not already a member of the Board, by virtue of the appointment, the person becomes a member of the Board.\n(3) The term of office of a member of the Board as chair is to be determined by the scheme manager on appointment of the member as chair, but it must be for a period that is no longer than the period between the chair's date of appointment as chair and the date on which the chair's term of office as a member is due to expire (irrespective of whether or not they are thereafter reappointed as a member).\n(4) A member serving as chair ceases to be chair—\n(a) on ceasing to be a member;\n(b) if the member resigns as chair, which the member may do at any time by giving a minimum of six months' notice (or such shorter period as the scheme manager is prepared to accept) in writing to the scheme manager;\n(c) if the member's membership of the Board is suspended by the scheme manager.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/94/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:26.680467+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."
}