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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-council-practice-committees-constitution-rules-order-of-council-2006/schedule/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1199",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursing and Midwifery Council (Practice Committees) (Constitution) Rules Order of Council 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-council-practice-committees-constitution-rules-order-of-council-2006",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Tenure",
  "text": "(1) A member of a Practice Committee who is a member of the Council shall serve until the end of her current term of office as a member of the Council.\n(2) A member of a Practice Committee who is not a member of the Council—\n(a) shall serve for four years from the date of her appointment;\n(b) may then be re-appointed for one further term of four years; and\n(c) may then be re-appointed to serve further terms of one year from the dates of her re-appointment.\n(3) A member of a Practice Committee may resign at any time by giving written notice to the Registrar.\n(4) The Council may remove a member of a Practice Committee from office—\n(a) for a serious and persistent deficiency in her attendance, conduct or performance at meetings of the Committee;\n(b) for failure to comply with requirements laid down by the Council regarding the undertaking of education and training provided or organised by the Council;\n(c) if it is satisfied that her continued membership is liable to undermine public confidence in the regulation of the nursing and midwifery professions;\n(d) if she is a member of the Committee by virtue of her being a registrant and she—\n(i) ceases to be wholly or mainly engaged in the practice, teaching or management of the relevant profession, or in research in those fields, or\n(ii) ceases to be registered in the part of the register relating to that profession; or\n(e) if she is a member of the Committee by virtue of her being a registered medical practitioner and she ceases to be so registered.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1199/schedule/paragraph/5",
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  "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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