Part IE+W+S Services and Administration

Local advisory committees andCommunity Health CouncilsE+W+S

19 Local advisory committees.E+W+S

(1)Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a committee formed for Wales, or for the region of a Regional Health Authority, is representative of persons of any of the following categories—

(a)the medical practitioners, or

(b)the dental practitioners, or

(c)the nurses and midwives, or

(d)the registered pharmacists, or

(e)the ophthalmic [F1and dispensing] opticians,

of Wales or of the region, then it shall be his duty to recognise the committee.

(2)A committee recognised in pursuance of subsection (1) above shall be called—

(a)the Welsh Medical, Dental, Nursing and Midwifery, Pharmaceutical or Optical Committee, as the case may be;

(b)the Regional Medical, Dental, Nursing and Midwifery, Pharmaceutical or Optical Committee, as the case may be, for the region in question.

(3)Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a committee formed for the area of an Area Health Authority [F2or for the district of a District Health Authority] is representative of persons of any of the categories mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e) in subsection (1) it shall be his duty to recognise the committee.

A committee recognised in pursuance of this subsection shall be called the Area [F2or the District] Medical, Dental, Nursing and Midwifery, Pharmaceutical or Optical Committee, as the case may be, for the area [F2or district] in question.

(4)The Secretary of State’s duty under subsections (1) and (3) above is subject to paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to this Act, and that Schedule has effect in relation to a committee recognised in pursuance of this section.

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