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(1)Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a committee formed for Wales, [F2, 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 and dispensing opticians,
of Wales [F3or 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;
[F4(b)the Regional Medical, Dental, Nursing and Midwifery, Pharmaceutical or Optical Committee, as the case may be, for the region in question.]
[F5(3)Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a committee formed for the area of an Area Health Authority [F6or 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 [F6or the District] Medical, Dental, Nursing and Midwifery, Pharmaceutical or Optical Committee, as the case may be, for the area [F6or district] in question.]
(4)The Secretary of State’s duty under [F7subsection (1)] 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.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in the sidenote of s. 19 substituted (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwiseprosp.) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 8(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(e) (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16)
F2Words in s. 19(1) repealed (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwiseprosp.) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 5(1)(2), 8(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(a)(i), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16)
F3Words in s. 19(1) repealed (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwiseprosp.) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 5(1)(2), 8(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(a)(ii), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16)
F4S. 19(2)(b) repealed (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwiseprosp.) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 5(1)(2), 8(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(b), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16)
F5S. 19(3) repealed (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwiseprosp.) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 5(1)(2), 8(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(c), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16)
F6Words inserted by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53, SIF 113:2), Sch. 1 para. 39
F7Words in s. 19(4) substituted (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwiseprosp.) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 8(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(d) (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16)
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