SCHEDULE 2 E+W CONSTITUTION OF COMMITTEES TO CONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS

11.  In this Schedule— E+W

(a) “lay member” means, in relation to a service committee or joint services committee, any member (other than the chairman) who is a lay person;

(b) “lay person” means a person who is not and never has been—

(i) a doctor, a dentist, an ophthalmic medical practitioner, an optician or a chemist, nor

(ii) a registered dispensing optician within the meaning of the Opticians Act 1989(1), nor

(iii) a registered nurse, a registered midwife or a registered health visitor(2), nor

(iv) an officer of, or otherwise employed by, any Family Health Services Authority, Regional Health Authority or District Health Authority, or a Community Health Council established under section 20 of the Act(3);

(c) “professional person” means—

(i) in the case of the medical service committee, a doctor,

(ii) in the case of the dental service committee or the denture conciliation committee, a dentist,

(iii) in the case of the pharmaceutical service committee, a pharmacist,

(iv) in the case of the ophthalmic service committee, an ophthalmic medical practitioner or an optician,

(v) in the case of the joint services committee, a member appointed by a service committee.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 2 para. 11 in force at 1.4.1992, see reg. 1

(1)

1989 c. 44.

(2)

See section 10(7) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (c. 36).

(3)

Section 20 was amended by paragraph 40 of Schedule 1 to the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53).