Hairdressers (Registration) Act 1964

Section 1.

SCHEDULE 1E+W+S Constitution of the Council and supplementary provisions

Part IE+W+S Constitution of the Council

1E+W+SThe Council shall consist of:—

(1)four persons, who F1... shall be registered persons and who shall be employers of persons engaged in hairdressing, or self-employed persons engaged in hairdressing, of whom two shall be appointed by the National Hairdressers Federation and two shall be appointed by the Incorporated Guild of Hairdressers, Wigmakers and Perfumers;

(2)four persons, who F2... shall be registered persons and who shall be employees engaged in hairdressing, to be appointed by the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers;

(3)one person appointed by the President of the British Medical Association;

(4)one person appointed by the President of the Royal College of Physicians of London;

(5)five persons appointed F3... by the members of the Council appointed under sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of this paragraph from among persons appearing to them to have had wide experience of, and shown capacity in, industry, commerce, administration, finance, or the practice of the law, or to have, in some other respect, special knowledge or experience that would be of value to the Council in the exercise and performance of its functions.

Textual Amendments

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Textual Amendments

3(1)Before the National Hairdressers Federation and the Incorporated Guild of Hairdressers, Wigmakers and Perfumers proceed to appoint the Members of the Hairdressing Council under sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule they shall consult together and shall ensure that not less than two of the persons to be appointed under the said sub-paragraph (1) shall be persons engaged in ladies’ hairdressing.E+W+S

(2)Not less than two of the persons to be appointed under sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall be persons engaged in ladies’ hairdressing.

Part IIE+W+S Supplementary provisions relating to the Hairdressing Council

4E+W+SThe Hairdressing Council shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.

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Textual Amendments

6(1)Of the members first appointed under sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule one-fourth shall retire on the thirty-first day of December in each of the years 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968.E+W+S

(2)The term of office of the members subsequently appointed under those sub-paragraphs shall be four years.

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Textual Amendments

7E+W+SThe term of office of the members appointed under sub-paragraphs (3) to (5) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall be three years.

8E+W+SA member of the Hairdressing Council may at any time by notice in writing addressed to the registrar resign his office.

9(1)A person appointed to fill a casual vacancy among the members of the Council shall hold office during the remainder of the term of office of the person in whose place he is appointed.E+W+S

(2)Any vacancy other than a casual vacancy in the membership of the Hairdressing Council shall be filled before the date on which the vacancy will occur.

10(1)The Hairdressing Council shall have power to do anything which in their opinion is calculated to facilitate the proper discharge of their functions.E+W+S

(2)The Council shall, in particular, have power:—

(a)to appoint, in addition to a registrar, such officers and servants as the Council may determine:

(b)to pay to the members of the Council or their committees such fees for attendance at meetings of the Council or their committees and such travelling and subsistence allowances while attending such meetings or while on any other business of the Council as the Council may determine;

(c)to pay to their officers and servants such remuneration as the Council may determine;

(d)as regards any officers or servants in whose case they may determine to do so, to pay to, or in respect of them, such pensions and gratuities, or provide and maintain for them such superannuation schemes (whether contributory or not), as the Council may determine.

(3)The powers of the Council may be exercised notwithstanding any vacancy, and no proceedings of the Council shall be invalidated by any defect in the appointment of a member.

11E+W+SThe Hairdressing Council may make regulations for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Council.

12E+W+SNo business shall be transacted at a meeting of the Hairdressing Council unless at least five members are present.