Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

the definition of “Administrator” shall be omitted;

the following definitions shall be inserted in the appropriate places in the alphabetical order:–

• ““conciliation” means the process of conciliation established and main tained by the Committee, pursuant to a direction under section 17 of the National Health Service Act 1977, with a view to resolving a matter giving rise to a complaint without recourse to an investigation under these Regulations;

• “General Manager” means the officer appointed by a Committee to act as its chief officer, or some other officer of the Committee duly authorised to act on his behalf;

• “Local Dental Committee”, “Local Medical Committee”, “Local Optical Committee” and “Local Pharmaceutical Committee” mean the commit tees of those names which are recognised by the Secretary of State in relation to a locality in pursuance of section 44 of the National Health Service Act 1977^f1;”;

in the definition of “optician”, the words after “ophthalmic optician” shall be omitted.