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The General Medical Council (Constitution of Fitness to Practise Committees) (Transitional Arrangements) Rules Order of Council 2003

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2.—(1) Subject to rules 3, 4 and 6, the membership of each of the fitness to practise committees shall comprise of doctors and lay persons appointed to each of those committees by the Council and included on lists of persons for each of those committees maintained by the Council.

(2) The fitness to practise committees may include members of the Council.

(3) In respect of each fitness to practise committee the Council shall appoint a Chairman and one or more Deputy Chairmen from the members of the committee.

(4) If, for the hearing of a case by a fitness to practise committee other than the Preliminary Proceedings Committee, neither the Chairman nor any of the Deputy Chairmen of that Committee is, or will be able to take the chair, the Chairman or a Deputy Chairman or the President may appoint another member of the Committee, who is, will be or was present at the commencement of the hearing, to chair the whole or (as the case may be) the remaining part of it.

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