The Health and Personal Social Services(Northern Ireland) Order 1991

Local representative committees

5.  In Article 55 of the principal Order (local representative committees) for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(1) Where—

(a) a Health and Social Services Board is satisfied as respects a committee formed for its area; or

(b) two or more Health and Social Services Boards are satisfied as respects a committee formed for an area which comprises the areas of those Boards, that the committee is representative—

(i) of the medical practitioners of that area, or

(ii) of the dental practitioners of that area, or

(iii) of the ophthalmic medical practitioners of that area, or

(iv) of the ophthalmic opticians of that area, or

(v) of the persons providing pharmaceutical services in that area, the Board or, as the case may be, the Boards may recognise that committee.”.