{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1975",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Maximum number of directors",
  "text": "For regulation 2 of the Regulations (maximum number of directors), there shall be substituted the following regulation—\n“Maximum number of directors\n2 (1) The maximum number of directors of an NHS trust shall be twelve, excluding the Chairman.\n(2) An NHS trust shall have no more than seven non-executive directors (excluding the Chairman), and no more than five executive directors.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1975/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:22:42.020427+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."
}