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  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Committee Constitution Rules) Order of Council 2005",
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  "heading": "Casual vacancies",
  "text": "(1) Where a casual vacancy occurs on a Committee, other than the Registration Appeals Committee and the Fitness to Practise Committee—\n(a) 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;\n(b) 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;\n(c) 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.\n(2) 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.",
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