# The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992, Regulation 3: Establishment of committees

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(1) Subject to paragraph (2) every Health Authority or Primary Care Trust shall have—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c) an ophthalmic discipline committee;
(d) a pharmaceutical discipline committee; and
(e) a joint discipline committee,
and may, where it sees fit, have two or more of any of those committees.
(2) The committees mentioned in paragraph (1) shall be known as discipline committees.
(3) Three or more Health Authorities or Primary Care Trusts may appoint discipline committees jointly and in these Regulations a reference to a discipline committee of a Health Authority or Primary Care Trust includes a reference to a discipline committee jointly appointed by three or more Health Authorities or Primary Care Trusts.
(4) A Health Authority or Primary Care Trust may have a reference committee which shall include one member who is both an officer and a member of that Health Authority or Primary Care Trust and which may exercise the Health Authority’s or Primary Care Trust's functions under these Regulations with respect to the referral of disciplinary matters.
(5) Schedule 2 shall have effect with respect to the committees mentioned in paragraph (1).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/664/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/regulation-3
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