# The General Optical Council (Membership) Order of Council 1998, 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(d) paragraph 4(b), and at the end of that paragraph “and”, shall be repealed; and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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3117/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-membership-order-of-council-1998/article-3
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