# The Public Services Reform (General Teaching Council for Scotland) Order 2011, Paragraph 3: Committees


(1) The GTCS may appoint such committees as it thinks fit.
(2) Any committee so appointed may appoint such sub-committees as it thinks fit.
(3) Such committees and sub-committees may consist—
(a) wholly of members of the GTCS;
(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
(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.
(4) The GTCS must make a scheme (the “committee scheme”) relating to the structure, membership, role and operation of its committees and sub-committees.
(5) The committee scheme may in particular make provision for or in connection with—
(a) the number of committees;
(b) the functions, duties and powers of committees;
(c) the procedure of committees;
(d) the regulation of the proceedings of, and the quorum at, committees;
(e) the composition of committees; and
(f) the membership arrangements for committees, including arrangements for the appointment to committees of persons who are not members of the GTCS.
(6) In sub-paragraph (5)(a) to (f) “committees” includes “sub-committees”.
(7) The GTCS may vary the committee scheme at any time.
(8) The GTCS must publish the committee scheme, in such ways as it thinks fit.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2011/9780111012246/schedule/3/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-services-reform-general-teaching-council-for-scotland-order-2011/schedule-3/paragraph-3
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