# The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992, Paragraph 8

Extent: E+W

In this Schedule—
(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;
(b) “lay person” means a person who is not and never has been—
(i) a doctor, a dentist, an ophthalmic medical practitioner, an optician or a chemist,
(ii) a registered dispensing optician within the meaning of the Opticians Act,
(iii) a registered nurse or registered midwife,
(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;
(c) “professional person” means—
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(iii) in the case of a pharmaceutical discipline committee, a pharmacist,
(iv) in the case of an ophthalmic discipline committee, an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician,
(v) in the case of a joint discipline committee, a member appointed by a discipline committee;
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/664/schedule/2/paragraph/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-8
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