{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regional-and-district-health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1990/regulation-13",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1331",
  "legislation_title": "The Regional and District Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regional-and-district-health-authorities-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Disqualification for appointment",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 14, a person shall be disqualified for appointment as the chairman or a member of an Authority if—\n(a) he has within the preceding five years been convicted in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man of any offence and has had passed on him a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not) for a period of not less than three months without the option of a fine; or\n(b) he has been adjudged bankrupt or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors; or\n(c) he has been dismissed, otherwise than by reason of redundancy, from any paid employment with a health service body;\n(d) he has had his name removed, by a direction under section 46 of the 1977 Act, from any list prepared under Part II of the Act and has not subsequently had his name included in such a list; or\n(e) he is a person whose tenure of office as the chairman or a member of an Authority has been terminated pursuant to paragraph (3), (4) or (6) of regulation 11;\n(f) he is a chairman or a member of—\n(i) any other Authority;\n(ii) except in so far as regulation 2(2) provides to the contrary, any Family Health Services Authority;\n(iii) any of the special health authorities established by virtue of the Authorities for London Post-Graduate Teaching Hospitals (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1982 and the Board of Governors of the Eastman Dental Hospital (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1984;\n(g) he is a chairman or director of an NHS trust;\n(h) he holds any paid appointment or office with a trade union which represents the interests of members who are employed by a health service body.\n(i) he is a member of a fund-holding practice recognised under section 14 of the 1990 Act.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) the date of conviction shall be deemed to be the date on which the ordinary period allowed for making an appeal or application with respect to the conviction expiries or, if such an appeal or application is made, the date on which the appeal or application is finally disposed of or abandoned or fails by reason of its not being prosecuted.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c) a person shall not be treated as having been in paid employment by reason only of his chairmanship or membership of a health service body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/314; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1984/190."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/188."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1526",
      "affecting_title": "The Authorities for London Post-Graduate Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1719",
      "affecting_title": "The Prescription Pricing Authority Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2648",
      "affecting_title": "The Welsh Health Common Services Authority Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/586",
      "affecting_title": "The National Blood Authority Regulations 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "appl (mods)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/602",
      "affecting_title": "The Microbiological Research Authority Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "appl (mods)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1103",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Promotion Authority for Wales Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/696",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Supplementary and Consequential Provision) (NHS Foundation Trusts) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/696",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Supplementary and Consequential Provision) (NHS Foundation Trusts) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/696",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Supplementary and Consequential Provision) (NHS Foundation Trusts) Order 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1331/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:17:50.987586+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."
}