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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1990/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2024",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Qualifications for appointments",
  "text": "(1) The executive directors of an NHS trust shall include–\n(a) the chief officer of the trust;\n(b) the chief finance officer of the trust;\n(c) except in the case of a trust mentioned in paragraph (2) a medical or dental practitioner and a registered nurse or registered midwife as defined in section 10(7) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979.\n(2) Paragraph 1(c) shall not apply in the case of a trust–\n(a) which does not provide services directly to patients; or\n(b) whose principal function is to provide ambulance or patient transport services.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3786",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Amendment (No. 2) 2001 (England) Regulations"
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    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2434",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Amendment (England) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1771",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/634",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/881",
      "affecting_title": "The Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2024/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:59:17.528369+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."
}