{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-and-improvement-authority-appointments-and-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-and-improvement-authority-appointments-and-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/37",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulation and Improvement Authority (Appointments and Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-and-improvement-authority-appointments-and-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Resignations",
  "text": "(1) The chairman or a member of the Authority may resign his office at any time during his term of office by giving not less than 30 days notice in writing to the Department of his intention to do so.\n(2) A person who resigns as chairman of the Authority may, if the Department consents, continue to serve as a member for any part of the period of his appointment which remains when his resignation as chairman takes effect.\n(3) A person who, on his resignation as chairman, seeks to continue to serve as a member shall inform the Department in writing of his wish to do so when he submits his resignation as chairman.\n(4) A person who fails to comply with the requirement of paragraph (3) shall cease to be a member of the Authority when his term of office as chairman terminates.\n(5) In the case of a member who during his term of office is appointed chairman of the Authority, the terms on which he was appointed a member shall cease to apply on the day on which his appointment as chairman takes effect.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 1.4.2004, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/37/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:59:19.222737+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."
}