# The National Health Service (Discipline Committees) (Scotland) Regulations 2006, Paragraph 3

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(1) As respects each discipline committee not fewer than one lay person and not fewer than one practitioner shall be appointed as deputies, according to the same provisions as apply to the appointment of members of that committee other than the chairperson.
(2) Where a member of a discipline committee, other than the chairperson, is absent, a deputy appointed according to the same provisions as that member may act in his or her place.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/330/schedule/1/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-discipline-committees-scotland-regulations-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-3
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