Article 12 Joint Consultative Committees.

in article 6 of that Order (representation of voluntary organisations on Committees) for the words “three members” there were substituted the words “such number of members, being not less than two, as the Secretary of State shall, in relation to any Committee, determine”;

for article 7 of that Order (appointment of members by voluntary organisations) there were substituted the following article—

“Appointment of members by voluntary organisations.

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(1)

The Secretary of State shall, after consultation with each Health Authority and each local authority represented on the Committee, invite such number as he thinks fit of the voluntary organisations which appear to him to have an interest in services of common concern to those bodies to appoint members to the Committee.

(2)

Each organisation which is invited under paragraph (1) above to make appointments shall appoint to the Committee such number of members as the Secretary of State shall determine in relation to that organisation.

(3)

Before exercising its power of appointment under paragraph (2) above, a voluntary organisation shall, for the purposes of giving effect to paragraph (4) below, consult the other organisation or organisations invited to make appointments to the same Committee.

(4)

The voluntary organisations which are invited under paragraph (1) above to make appointments to the same Committee shall so exercise their powers under paragraph (2) above as to secure that any person who on 31st March 1996 was, by virtue of article 7 of the Order as then in force, a member of a Committee (“the old Committee”) is given an opportunity to serve until 30th September 1996 on a Committee on which there is represented a Health Authority whose area includes the whole or any part of the district of a former District Health Authority which was represented on the old Committee.”; and

in article 8 of that Order (vacancies among members appointed under article 7)—