{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/664",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A joint discipline committee shall consist of—\n(a) a chairman appointed in accordance with paragraph 4; and\n(b) ten other members of whom—\n(i) two shall be lay persons appointed by the Health Authority or Primary Care Trust,\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iv) two shall be pharmacists appointed in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) by the pharmaceutical discipline committee,\n(v) two shall be ophthalmic medical practitioners or opticians appointed in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) by the ophthalmic discipline committee.\n(2) A person appointed as a member of a joint discipline committee by a discipline committee under sub-paragraph (1)(b) (iv) or (v) shall already be a member of the discipline committee which appoints him or a deputy for such a member.\n(3) A member of the joint discipline committee appointed by a discipline committee shall not take part in an investigation by the joint discipline committee unless the matter to be investigated involves a question relating to a relevant practitioner.\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) a relevant practitioner is—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) in relation to a member appointed by the ophthalmic discipline committee, an ophthalmic medical practioner or an optician;\n(d) in relation to a member appointed by the pharmaceutical discipline committee, a chemist.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) by The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1909), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 substituted (1.4.1996) by The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/703), regs. 1, 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(b)(i) inserted (1.10.2002) by The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2469), regs. 1, 8, Sch. 5 (with Sch. 12 Pts. 1, 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(b)(ii) omitted (E.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/865), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(n)(i) (with arts. 94-104); and omitted (W.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1016), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(1)(n)(i) (with arts. 71, 72)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(b)(iii) omitted (E.) (1.4.2006) by virtue of The General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Abolition of the Dental Practice Board Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/562), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(13)(a)(i) (with arts. 31-37); and omitted (W.) (1.4.2006) by virtue of The General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/946), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(13)(a)(i) (with arts. 31-37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(2) substituted (E.) (1.4.2006) by The General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Abolition of the Dental Practice Board Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/562), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(13)(a)(ii) (with arts. 31-37); and substituted (W.) (1.4.2006) by The General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/946), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(13)(a)(ii) (with arts. 31-37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2(4)(a) omitted (E.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/865), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(n)(iii) (with arts. 94-104); and omitted (W.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1016), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(1)(n)(iii) (with arts. 71, 72)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2(4)(b) omitted (E.) (1.4.2006) by virtue of The General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Abolition of the Dental Practice Board Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/562), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(13)(a)(i) (with arts. 31-37); and omitted (W.) (1.4.2006) by virtue of The General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/946), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(13)(a)(i) (with arts. 31-37)"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}