{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-1A/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-1A/paragraph-8.json",
  "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/1A/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An individual is disqualified from being a candidate in a Health Board election if the individual is—\n(a) a member of the European Parliament,\n(b) a member of the House of Commons,\n(c) a member of the House of Lords,\n(d) a member of the Scottish Parliament, or\n(e) a local authority councillor.\n(2) Election regulations may make further provision about—\n(a) who is qualified to be a candidate in a Health Board election, and\n(b) the circumstances in which an individual may be disqualified from being a candidate,\nand, in particular, may disqualify from being a candidate an individual holding a post set out in a list of restricted posts maintained by the Health Board concerned for that purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1A inserted (temp. from 24.6.2009 for certain purposes and otherwise prosp.) by Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 5), ss. 2(3), 4, 6(2)(3), 7, 11(1); S.S.I. 2009/242, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/schedule/1A/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}