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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wales-act-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/42",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wales-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A Local Health Board may employ such officers as it considers appropriate.\n(2) A Local Health Board may—\n(a) pay its officers such remuneration and allowances, and\n(b) employ them on such other terms and conditions,\nas it considers appropriate.\n(3) A Local Health Board must—\n(a) in exercising its powers under sub-paragraph (2), and\n(b) otherwise in connection with the employment of its officers,\nact in accordance with regulations, and any directions given by the Welsh Ministers.\n(4) Before making any regulations under sub-paragraph (3), the Welsh Ministers must consult such bodies as they may recognise as representing persons who, in their opinion, are likely to be affected by the regulations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/42/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
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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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