Version Superseded: 21/04/1993
Point in time view as at 08/03/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.
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(1)[F1Subject to subsection (1A) below] the Medical Practices Committee—
(a)shall consist of a chairman and eight other members appointed by the Secretary of State after consultation with such organisations as he may recognise as representative of the medical profession; and
(b)the chairman and six of the other members shall be medical practitioners, and five at least of those six shall be actively engaged in medical practice.
[F2(1A)The Secretary of State may by order make such modifications as he considers appropriate of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) above.]
(2)The Secretary of State may—
(a)make regulations as to the appointment, tenure of office and vacation of office of the members of the Committee; and
(b)provide the services of such officers as the Committee may require.
(3)The Committee’s proceedings shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in its membership or by any defect in a member’s appointment or qualification.
[F3(4)After consulting the Medical Practices Committee, the Secretary of State may give the Committee directions with respect to the exercise of its functions; and it shall be the duty of the Committee to comply with any such directions.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words inserted by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 22(2)
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