{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-membership-order-of-council-1998/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3117",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Membership) Order of Council 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-membership-order-of-council-1998",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Further alteration of membership of the General Optical Council",
  "text": "(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.\n(2) Schedule 1 to the Act shall be further amended as follows–\n(a) in paragraph 1(b) for “seven” there shall be substituted “six”;\n(b) in paragraph 1(c) for “three” there shall be substituted “five”;\n(c) for paragraph 1(d) there shall be substituted–\n“(d) four persons nominated by the examining bodies mentioned in this Schedule;”;\n(d) paragraph 4(b), and at the end of that paragraph “and”, shall be repealed; and\n(e) at the end of paragraph 4(c) there shall be added–\n“; and\n(d) one, who shall be a person engaged in the education or examination of persons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–\n(i) the Anglia Polytechnic University;\n(ii) the Bradford and Ilkley Community College;\n(iii) the City and Islington College (City Campus); and\n(iv) the Glasgow Caledonian University.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3117/article/3",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}