Paragraph 23 Fitness to Practise Committee

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. rule 2A(h)(i) words substituted by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) 2012 art. 13(1)(3)(a)
Sch. rule 2ZA inserted by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 4
Sch. rule 14 substituted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 5
Sch. rule 15 substituted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 6
Sch. rule 16 substituted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 7
Sch. rule 16A(2) substituted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 8(a)
Sch. rule 16A(3) inserted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 8(b)
Sch. rule 17 omitted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 9
Sch. rule 18 substituted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 10
Sch. rule 22 substituted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 11
Sch. rule 23 substituted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 12
Sch. rule 24 substituted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 13
Sch. rule 24A(2)(3) substituted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 14
Sch. rule 25 omitted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 15
Sch. rule 26 substituted (temp.) by General Optical Council (Committee Constitution, Registration and Fitness to Practise) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 Sch. rule 16

When considering any matter relating to the fitness to practise of a registered dispensing optician, or of a registered student training as a dispensing optician, the Fitness to Practise Committee shall consist of—

(a)

two registered dispensing opticians; and

(b)

three lay persons,

who are each to be selected in accordance with rule 29.

Notes on Schedule

Footnotes

f1: 1989 c. 44. Section 2 was amended by, sections 3, 4 and 5 were substituted by, and sections 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D and paragraph 12A of Schedule 1 were inserted by S.I. 2005/848.
f2: See section 3(3) of the Opticians Act 1989 (c. 44). Section 3 was substituted by S.I. 2005/848.