Paragraph 8 I1

Scotland

In this Schedule–

(a)

“lay member” in relation to a discipline committee or joint discipline committee, means any member (other than the chairperson) who is a lay person;

(b)

“lay person” means a person who is not and never has been–

(i)

a practitioner, a pharmacist or an optician;

(ii)

a registered dispensing optician within the meaning of the Opticians Act 1989;

(iii)

a registered nurse, a registered midwife or a registered health visitor; or

(iv)

an officer of, or otherwise employed by, any Health Board;

(c)

“practitioner” means–

(i)

in the case of the medical discipline committee, a doctor;

(ii)

in the case of the dental discipline committee, a dentist;

(iii)

in the case of the pharmaceutical discipline committee, a pharmacist;

(iv)

in the case of the ophthalmic discipline committee, an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician;

(v)

in the case of the joint discipline committee, a member appointed by a discipline committee;

(d)

references to a “Health Board” include references to a Health Board which has jointly appointed a discipline committee in accordance with regulation 3(3);

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 1 para. 8 in force at 1.7.2006, see reg. 1(1)