# Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960, Paragraph 8

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) The members of a board, other than the representative members, shall be appointed by the Council.
(2) Subject to paragraph 11 of this Schedule, the representative and alternate members of a board taking office after the initial period shall be registered members of the relevant profession elected by the registered members of that profession in accordance with a scheme for that board prepared by the Council in consultation with the board and approved by the Privy Council.
(3) The representative and alternate members of a board taking office during the initial period shall be appointed by the Council after consultation with the relevant body or bodies mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 3 of this Schedule; and a person shall not be eligible for appointment under this sub-paragraph unless he is qualified or recommended as mentioned in that sub-paragraph:
Provided that in exercising its powers under this sub-paragraph the Council shall appoint the representative member of the Council and his alternate member appointed under paragraph 3 of this Schedule by Ministers instead of by the board to be two of the representative members of the board.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/66/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/professions-supplementary-to-medicine-act-1960/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-8
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