{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-1/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/29",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The proceedings of a Health Board shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in membership or by any defect in the appointment or, as the case may be, election of any member thereof.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 12 inserted (temp. from 24.6.2009 for certain purposes and otherwise prosp.) by Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 5), ss. 1(8), 4, 6(2)(3), 7, 11(1); S.S.I. 2009/242, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 paras. 1, 2, 4–7, 9–15, Sch. 5 paras. 7B, 7C applied by S.I. 1990/2639, art. 5(1)(2), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 applied (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/577, art. 5(1)(2), Sch. Pt. I (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 applied (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/726, art. 5(1)(2), Sch. Pt. I (with art. 6) Sch. 1 para. 12 applied (1.4.2000) by S.S.I. 2000/47, art. 5(1)(2), Sch. Pt. I Sch. 1 para. 12 applied (6.4.2001) by S.S.I. 2001/137, art. 5(1), Sch. Pt. I Sch. 1 para. 12 applied (31.3.2002) by S.S.I. 2002/103, art. 6, Sch. Pt. I (with art. 4(4)) Sch. 1 para. 12 applied (27.6.2002) by S.S.I. 2002/305, art. 5(1), Sch. Pt. I (with art. 4(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 applied (7.12.2019) by The Public Health Scotland Order 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/336), art. 1(2), sch. 1 Pt. 1 (with art. 4(4)(5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asp/2004/7",
      "affecting_title": "National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:48.038600+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."
}