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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-standing-advisory-committees-regulations-1981/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1981/101",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-standing-advisory-committees-regulations-1981",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Termination of term of office",
  "text": "(1) A member may resign his office at any time during the period for which he was appointed by giving notice in writing to the Secretary of State.\n(2) A person who at the time of his appointment as a member of an Advisory Committee was the holder of one of the offices specified in paragraph (3) below (in these regulations referred to as “an office-holder”) shall cease to be a member of that Advisory Committee if he ceases to hold such office.\n(3) The offices referred to in paragraph (2) above are—\nThe President of the Royal College of Physicians of London;\nThe President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England;\nThe President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists;\nThe President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists;\nThe President of the Royal College of Pathologists;\nThe President of the Royal College of General Practitioners;\nThe President of the Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom;\nThe President of the Royal College of Midwives;\nThe Chairman of the Council of the British Medical Association;\nThe Chairman of the Council of the British Dental Association;\nThe President of the Faculty of Community Medicine;\nThe President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain;\nThe President of the Royal College of Radiologists; and\nThe Dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetists.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1986/458",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) (Amendment) Regulations 1986"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/101/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:46:26.956737+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."
}