Paragraph 31 Casual vacancies
Where a casual vacancy occurs on a Committee, other than the Registration Appeals Committee and the Fitness to Practise Committee—
where the member of the Committee whose office has become vacant was a member of the Council chosen to represent registered optometrists or registered dispensing opticians, the Council shall fill the vacancy by appointing a member of the Council who was chosen to represent the same profession;
where the member whose office has become vacant was a member of the Companies Committee appointed under rule 7, the Council shall fill the vacancy by appointing a person in accordance with the requirements of that rule;
in any other case, the Council shall fill the vacancy by appointing a person who became a member of the Council by virtue of the same provision of paragraph 1 of the Schedule as applied to his predecessor.
A person appointed to fill a casual vacancy in accordance with paragraph (1) shall hold office until the date on which the term of office of his predecessor would have expired.
Notes on Schedule
Footnotes
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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.
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See section 3(3) of the Opticians Act 1989 (c. 44). Section 3 was substituted by S.I. 2005/848.