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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-downs-national-park-authority-establishment-order-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/497",
  "legislation_title": "The South Downs National Park Authority (Establishment) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-downs-national-park-authority-establishment-order-2010",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Chairman and deputy chairman",
  "text": "(1) The election of a chairman and deputy chairman must be the first business transacted at the annual meeting of the Authority.\n(2) The person elected as chairman or deputy chairman of the Authority may at any time resign their office by notice in writing delivered to the National Park officer.\n(3) Where a casual vacancy in the office of chairman or deputy chairman of the Authority is filled, the person appointed to fill that vacancy holds office until the date upon which the person last holding that office would have retired in the ordinary course.\n(4) Where necessary, the meeting at which the casual vacancy is to be filled must be convened by the National Park officer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/497/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:51:08.145968+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."
}