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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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  "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/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Appointment, term of office and cessation of office of the chair",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must appoint two persons as joint chair of the Board.\n(2) One of those persons must be a representative of employers and the other must be a representative of scheme members.\n(3) The Secretary of State may appoint a person—\n(a) who is not already a member on the Board; or\n(b) who is already a member on the Board.\n(4) A member serving as chair shall cease 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 Secretary of State is prepared to accept) in writing to the Secretary of State;\n(c) if the member's membership of the Board is suspended by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/94/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}