{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1979/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/36",
  "legislation_title": "Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1979",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a member of the Council or any of its committees is absent from meetings for more than 6 months consecutively or is disqualified from practising as a nurse, midwife or health visitor, the Council may by resolution declare that he has ceased to be a member.\n(2) An elected member shall cease to be a member if he ceases to hold any qualification by virtue of which he was elected.\n(3) A person appointed as a replacement for an elected member shall cease to be a member if he ceases to hold any qualification by virtue of which he was appointed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.1993) by Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1992 (c. 16), s. 1(2), Sch. 1; S.I. 1993/588, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:16.298557+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."
}