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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-scotland-amendment-regulations-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1458",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-scotland-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1991 (“the principal Regulations”) which make provision concerning the membership and procedure of NHS trusts. Regulation 8(1)(g) of the principal regulations which disqualifies a person holding a paid appointment or office with a trade union which represents the interests of members which are employed by a health service body from being a chairman or non-executive director of an NHS trust is omitted.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1458/note",
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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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