Section 10 Co-option of chronically sick or disabled persons by committees of Health and Social Services Board.

Where a Health and Social Services Board appoints a committee or sub-committee of the Board and the members of the committee or sub-committee include or may include persons who are not members of the Board, then in considering the appointment to the committee or sub-committee of such persons regard shall be had, if the committee or sub-committee is concerned with matters in which the chronically sick or disabled have special needs, to the desirability of appointing to the committee or sub-committee persons with experience of work among and of the needs of the chronically sick and disabled, and of the person or persons with that experience being or including a chronically sick or disabled person or persons.