National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006

Advisory committees

189 Welsh Ministers' standing advisory committees

(1) The Welsh Ministers may by order establish standing advisory committees for the purpose of advising them on such of the services provided under this Act as may be specified in the order.

(2) A standing advisory committee consists of persons appointed by the Welsh Ministers after consultation with such representative organisations as they recognise for the purpose.

(3) A standing advisory committee must advise the Welsh Ministers—

(a) on such matters relating to the services with which the committee is concerned as it considers appropriate, and

(b) on any questions referred to it by the Welsh Ministers relating to those services.

(4) Schedule 13 makes further provision about standing advisory committees.

190 Advisory committees for Wales

(1) Where the Welsh Ministers are satisfied that a committee formed for Wales is representative of any category of persons mentioned in subsection (2), they must recognise the committee.

(2) The categories are—

(a) medical practitioners,

(b) dental practitioners,

(c) nurses and midwives,

(d) registered pharmacists, or

(e) optometrists.

(3) A committee recognised under this section is called the Welsh Medical Committee, the Welsh Dental Committee, the Welsh Nursing and Midwifery Committee, the Welsh Pharmaceutical Committee or the Welsh Optical Committee.

(4) The duty of the Welsh Ministers under subsection (1) is subject to paragraph 1 of Schedule 14.

(5) Schedule 14 to this Act makes further provision about committees recognised under this section.