Regulation 7
1. A special agency shall constitute a committee in accordance with the following provisions.
2. A special agency shall appoint to the Committee five persons, hereafter referred to as “core members”, of whom–
(a)one shall be a lay member of the special agency;
(b)one shall be a professional member who shall be–
(i)a person employed by the special agency as a consultant in the relevant speciality; or
(ii)where no such person is available for the purpose a person employed by the special agency as a consultant in some other specialty;
(c)one shall be the chief officer of the special agency;
(d)one shall be a consultant specialising in the branch of medicine or dentistry concerned practising outside Northern Ireland;
(e)one shall be nominated by the Faculty of Medicine of the Queen’s University of Belfast.
3. In addition to the core members a special agency may appoint such additional members to the Committee as it thinks fit.
4. A Committee shall have a majority of professional members and a majority of members who are persons employed by a special agency or who are members of a special agency.
5. Two or more special agencies may in the appointment of a Committee act together as if they were a single special agency.