Regulation 7 Appointment of committees and joint committees

A Patients' Forum may appoint a committee to discharge, or assist it in discharging, any or all of its functions subject to such conditions as the Patients' Forum may consider appropriate.

Two or more Patients Forums' may appoint a joint committee and arrange for such functions, in relation to any (or all) of those Patients' Forums, as those Forums agree, to be exercisable by the joint committee subject to such conditions as those Patients' Forums may consider appropriate.

A committee or joint committee appointed under paragraph (1) or (2) may consist wholly or partly of members of the appointing Patients' Forum or Forums provided that—

Sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of regulation 4(1) and regulation 5 shall apply to the appointment of members of committees and joint committees appointed under this regulation as they apply to the appointment of members of a Patients' Forum.