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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/29",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An appointed member may be appointed only after consultation with the following bodies—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) any university appearing to the Secretary of State to have an interest in the provision of health services in that area;\n(c) such organisations as the Secretary of State may recognise as representative in that area of the medical, dental, nursing, pharmaceutical and ophthalmic professions and such other professions as the Secretary of State considers appropriate, or of those professions generally; and\n(d) such other organisations as appear to the Secretary of State to be concerned.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3 substituted (24.6.2009 for certain purposes and otherwise prosp.) by Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 5), ss. 1(4)(a), 4, 7, 11(1); S.S.I. 2009/242, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3(a) omitted (24.6.2009 for certain purposes and otherwise prosp.) by virtue of Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 5), ss. 1(4)(b), 4, 7, 11(1); S.S.I. 2009/242, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asp/2004/7",
      "affecting_title": "National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004"
    }
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  },
  "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."
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