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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-disciplinary-committee-constitution-amendment-rules-order-of-council-2004/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/259",
  "legislation_title": "General Optical Council (Disciplinary Committee (Constitution) Amendment Rules) Order of Council 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-disciplinary-committee-constitution-amendment-rules-order-of-council-2004",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Disciplinary Committee (Constitution) Rules 1998 (scheduled to the General Optical Council Disciplinary Committee (Constitution) Rules Order of Council 1998) shall be amended as follows:\n(a) in rule 3, for “fifteen” there shall be substituted “twenty”;\n(b) in rule 9, for “Three” there shall be substituted “Eight”;\n(c) for rule 15, there shall be substituted—\n“15. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the quorum of the Committee shall be three and shall include—\n(a) a member nominated under sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 1 of the Schedule; and\n(b) in a disciplinary case involving—\n(i) a registered ophthalmic optician or an enrolled body corporate carrying on business as an ophthalmic optician, a registered ophthalmic optician; or\n(ii) a registered dispensing optician or an enrolled body corporate carrying on business as a dispensing optician, a registered dispensing optician.\n(2) A member who has not been present throughout the Committee’s deliberations preceding a decision may not take part in the determination and does not count towards the quorum.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1338."
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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