Article 3 Further alteration of membership of the General Optical Council

(1)

The further alterations in the membership of the Council reflected in the amendments of Schedule 1 to the Act set out in paragraph (2) shall have effect from 1st January 2002.

(2)

Schedule 1 to the Act shall be further amended as follows–

(a)

in paragraph 1(b) for “seven” there shall be substituted “six”;

(b)

in paragraph 1(c) for “three” there shall be substituted “five”;

(c)

for paragraph 1(d) there shall be substituted–

“(d)

four persons nominated by the examining bodies mentioned in this Schedule;”;

(d)

paragraph 4(b), and at the end of that paragraph “and”, shall be repealed; and

(e)

at the end of paragraph 4(c) there shall be added–

“; and

(d)

one, who shall be a person engaged in the education or examination of persons training as dispensing opticians, shall be nominated by the Association of British Dispensing Opticians, after consulting–

(i)

the Anglia Polytechnic University;

(ii)

the Bradford and Ilkley Community College;

(iii)

the City and Islington College (City Campus); and

(iv)

the Glasgow Caledonian University.”.