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3 Consumer Protection Advisory Committee.U.K.
(1)There shall be established an advisory committee to be called the Consumer Protection Advisory Committee (in this Act referred to as “the Advisory Committee”) for the purpose of performing the functions assigned to that Committee by Part II of this Act.
(2)Subject to subsection (6) of this section, the Advisory Committee shall consist of not less than ten and not more than fifteen members, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of State.
(3)The Secretary of State may appoint persons to the Advisory Committee either as full-time members or as part-time members.
(4)Of the members of the Advisory Committee, the Secretary of State shall appoint one to be chairman and one to be deputy chairman of the Advisory Committee.
(5)In appointing persons to be members of the Advisory Committee, the Secretary of State shall have regard to the need for securing that the Advisory Committee will include—
(a)one or more persons appearing to him to be qualified to advise on practices relating to goods supplied to consumers in the United Kingdom or produced with a view to their being so suppied, or relating to services supplied for consumers in the United Kingdom, by virtue of their knowledge of or experience in the supply (whether to consumers or not) of such goods or by virtue of their knowledge of or experience in the supply of such services;
(b)one or more persons appearing to him to be qualified to advise on such practices as are mentioned in the preceding paragraph by virtue of their knowledge of or experience in the enforcement of the [F1M1Weights and Measures Act 1963][F1Weights and Measures Act 1985] or the M2Trade Descriptions Act 1968 or other similar enactments; and
(c)one or more persons appearing to him to be qualified to advise on such practices by virtue of their knowledge of or experience in organisations established, or activities carried on, for the protection of consumers.
(6)The Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument increase the maximum number of members of the Advisory Committee to such number as he may think fit.
(7)The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the Advisory Committee.
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F1Words “Weights and Measures Act 1985” substituted (E.W.S.) for “Weights and Measures Act 1963” by Weights and Measures Act 1985 (c. 72, SIF 131), s. 97, Sch. 12 para. 6
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