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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-blood-and-transplant-gwaed-a-thrawsblaniadaur-gig-amendment-regulations-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/640",
  "legislation_title": "The NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau'r GIG) (Amendment) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-blood-and-transplant-gwaed-a-thrawsblaniadaur-gig-amendment-regulations-2006",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau'r GIG) Regulations 2005 S.I. 2005/2531 (“the principal Regulations”). The principal Regulations make provision concerning the membership and procedure of NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau'r GIG) (“the Authority”), a Special Health Authority established under the National Health Service Act 1977 by the NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau'r GIG) (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2005 S.I. 2005/2529.\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 1 of the principal Regulations to insert a definition of “sentence of imprisonment”.\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 2 of the principal Regulations to provide that where a person is suspended from his appointment as the chief executive of the Authority he is also suspended from performing his duties as a member of the Authority.\nRegulation 4 amends regulation 3 of the principal Regulations to provide that a person is disqualified for appointment as the chairman or as a non-officer member of the Authority if he has within the previous 5 years been convicted of an offence in any jurisdiction which if committed in the United Kingdom would constitute a criminal offence and he has received a sentence for that offence of a period of imprisonment (whether suspended or not), and the conviction has not been quashed or the sentence reduced to a sentence other than a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not), on appeal.\nRegulation 5 amends regulation 4 of the principal Regulations to apply the easement to disqualifications under regulation 3(1)(g)(i) and (iii) of the principal Regulations to persons who fall within regulation 3(1)(g)(ii) of the principal Regulations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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