{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-8.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/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n(a) “lay member” means, in relation to a discipline committee or joint discipline committee, any member (other than the chairman) who is a lay person;\n(b) “lay person” means a person who is not and never has been—\n(i) a doctor, a dentist, an ophthalmic medical practitioner, an optician or a chemist,\n(ii) a registered dispensing optician within the meaning of the Opticians Act,\n(iii) a registered nurse or registered midwife,\n(iv) an officer of, or otherwise employed by, any Health Authority or Primary Care Trust or a Community Health Council established under section 20 of the Act or the Citizen Voice Body for Health and Social Care, Wales, established under section 12(1) of the Health and Social Care (Quality and Engagement) (Wales) Act 2020;\n(c) “professional person” means—\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iii) in the case of a pharmaceutical discipline committee, a pharmacist,\n(iv) in the case of an ophthalmic discipline committee, an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician,\n(v) in the case of a joint discipline committee, a member appointed by a discipline committee;\n(d) references to a “Health Authority or Primary Care Trust” include references to a Health Authority or Primary Care Trust which has jointly appointed a discipline committee in accordance with regulation 3(3); and\n(e) where three or more Health Authorities or Primary Care Trusts have jointly appointed a discipline committee in accordance with regulation 3(3) references to the “relevant local representative committee” include references to any of the relevant local representative committees for the areas of those three of more Health Authorities or Primary Care Trusts.",
  "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": "Sch. 2 para. 8(b)(iii) substituted (1.8.2004) by The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1771), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 44"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8 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": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(b)(iv) inserted (W.) (1.4.2023) by The Health and Social Care (Quality and Engagement) (Wales) Act 2020 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments and Revocations) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/299), regs. 1(2), 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(c)(i) 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)(iv) (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)(iv) (with arts. 71, 72)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(c)(ii) 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)(b) (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)(b) (with arts. 31-37)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/664/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}