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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/professions-supplementary-to-medicine-act-1960/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/66",
  "legislation_title": "Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/professions-supplementary-to-medicine-act-1960",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/8",
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  "number": "8",
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  "text": "(1) The members of a board, other than the representative members, shall be appointed by the Council.\n(2) Subject to paragraph 11 of this Schedule, the representative and alternate members of a board taking office after the initial period shall be registered members of the relevant profession elected by the registered members of that profession in accordance with a scheme for that board prepared by the Council in consultation with the board and approved by the Privy Council.\n(3) The representative and alternate members of a board taking office during the initial period shall be appointed by the Council after consultation with the relevant body or bodies mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 3 of this Schedule; and a person shall not be eligible for appointment under this sub-paragraph unless he is qualified or recommended as mentioned in that sub-paragraph:\nProvided that in exercising its powers under this sub-paragraph the Council shall appoint the representative member of the Council and his alternate member appointed under paragraph 3 of this Schedule by Ministers instead of by the board to be two of the representative members of the board.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:10:48.669732+00:00"
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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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