{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-4.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/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The chairman of a discipline committee shall be a solicitor or barrister appointed by the Health Authority or Primary Care Trust.\n(2) The Health Authority or Primary Care Trust shall, within 14 days of making an appointment under sub-paragraph (1), give notice in writing of the appointment to the other members of the discipline committee.\n(3) Where, within 14 days of notice being sent under sub-paragraph (1), a statement duly signed in accordance with sub-paragraph (4) is sent to the Health Authority or Primary Care Trust asserting that the chairman appointed by the Health Authority or Primary Care Trust is not acceptable to the signatories of the statement, the Health Authority or Primary Care Trust shall within 28 days of receipt of that statement refer the matter of the appointment to the Secretary of State.\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) a statement must be signed—\n(a) in the case of a discipline committee other than a joint discipline committee, by a majority of its lay members, or by a majority of its other members;\n(b) in the case of a joint discipline committee, by both of its lay members or by both of the members appointed by any one of the discipline committees.\n(5) Where the matter of the appointment is referred to the Secretary of State under sub-paragraph (3), he may, after consultation with the Health Authority or Primary Care Trust and the relevant local representative committee, appoint another person to be chairman of the discipline committee, and the chairman appointed by the Health Authority or Primary Care Trust shall cease immediately to hold office as chairman and member of that committee.\n(6) A person appointed as chairman of a discipline committee who is already a member of that discipline committee shall, on his appointment as chairman, cease to be a member otherwise than in his capacity as chairman and a new member shall be appointed to take his place.",
  "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. 4 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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/664/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:31.699231+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}