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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-services-reform-general-teaching-council-for-scotland-order-2011/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2011/9780111012246",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Services Reform (General Teaching Council for Scotland) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-services-reform-general-teaching-council-for-scotland-order-2011",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Committees",
  "text": "(1) The GTCS may appoint such committees as it thinks fit.\n(2) Any committee so appointed may appoint such sub-committees as it thinks fit.\n(3) Such committees and sub-committees may consist—\n(a) wholly of members of the GTCS;\n(b) partly of members of the GTCS and partly of other persons appointed to that committee or sub-committee by the GTCS or, in the case of sub-committees, by the committee which appointed that sub-committee; or\n(c) wholly of non-members of the GTCS appointed to that committee or sub-committee by the GTCS or, in the case of sub-committees, by the committee which appointed that sub-committee.\n(4) The GTCS must make a scheme (the “committee scheme”) relating to the structure, membership, role and operation of its committees and sub-committees.\n(5) The committee scheme may in particular make provision for or in connection with—\n(a) the number of committees;\n(b) the functions, duties and powers of committees;\n(c) the procedure of committees;\n(d) the regulation of the proceedings of, and the quorum at, committees;\n(e) the composition of committees; and\n(f) the membership arrangements for committees, including arrangements for the appointment to committees of persons who are not members of the GTCS.\n(6) In sub-paragraph (5)(a) to (f) “committees” includes “sub-committees”.\n(7) The GTCS may vary the committee scheme at any time.\n(8) The GTCS must publish the committee scheme, in such ways as it thinks fit.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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