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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-counter-fraud-authority-establishment-constitution-and-staff-and-other-transfer-provisions-order-2017/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/958",
  "legislation_title": "The NHS Counter Fraud Authority (Establishment, Constitution, and Staff and Other Transfer Provisions) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-counter-fraud-authority-establishment-constitution-and-staff-and-other-transfer-provisions-order-2017",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Suspension of chairperson: appointment of vice-chairperson",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where the chairperson is suspended under paragraph 6.\n(2) If a vice-chairperson has been appointed under paragraph 8(1) that appointment is to cease to have effect.\n(3) The Secretary of State may re-appoint the person mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) or appoint another non-officer member to be the vice-chairperson.\n(4) The appointment of a vice-chairperson under sub-paragraph (3) is to be for a period, not exceeding the shorter of—\n(a) the period for which the chairperson is suspended; and\n(b) the remainder of the non-officer member’s term as a member of the Authority.\n(5) When the period for which a person is appointed as vice-chairperson expires, the Secretary of State may re-appoint that person, or appoint another non-officer member as vice-chairperson.\n(6) Any person appointed under sub-paragraph (3) or (5) may at any time resign from the office of vice-chairperson by giving notice in writing to the Secretary of State.\n(7) A notice given under sub-paragraph (6) is to take effect—\n(a) where a date is specified in the notice as that on which the resignation is to take effect, on that date; or\n(b) in any other case, on the date that the notice is received by the Secretary of State.\n(8) The Secretary of State may terminate a person’s appointment as vice-chairperson under sub-paragraph (3) or (5) if the Secretary of State is of the opinion that it would be in the best interests of the Authority for another non-officer member of the Authority to be vice-chairperson.\n(9) If—\n(a) a person resigns from the office of vice-chairperson under sub-paragraph (6); or\n(b) the Secretary of State terminates a person’s appointment as vice-chairperson under sub-paragraph (8),\nthe Secretary of State may appoint another non-officer member as vice-chairperson.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7 in force at 1.11.2017, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/958/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:07:43.800686+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."
}