The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (Appointments and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (Appointments and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 20th December 2002.

(2) In these Regulations –

“the principal Regulations” means the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Council (Appointments and Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001(1).

Amendments to regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (Terms of Appointment) –

(a) in paragraph (2) for “The other members” there shall be substituted “The members”;

(b) in paragraph (5) –

(i) for “member” there shall be substituted “a member”; and

(ii) for “4 years” there shall be substituted “4 years,”.

Amendments to regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

3.  In regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (Disqualification for appointment) –

(a) in paragraph (1) –

(i) in sub-paragraph (c) the word “fairly” shall be omitted;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (d)(i) for “of that body,” there shall be substituted “of, that body”;

(b) after paragraph (6) there shall be inserted the following paragraph: –

“(6A) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c) “dismissal” excludes dismissal which was established to have been unfair in industrial tribunal proceedings”.

(c) in paragraph (7)(a) after the word “medical” there shall be inserted the word “practitioner”.

Amendment to regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

4.  In regulation 5(1) of the principal regulations (Resignations) for “member” there shall be substituted “a member”.

Amendment to regulation 6 of the principal Regulations

5.  In regulation 6(1)(a)(ii) of the principal regulations (Termination of tenure of office of chairman and members) for “meetings for a continuous period of 3 months beginning with the date of a meeting” there shall be substituted “three consecutive meetings of the Council”.

Amendments to regulation 10 of the principal Regulations

6.  In regulation 10 of the principal Regulations (Disclosure of pecuniary interest and exclusion of chairman and members in proceedings on account of pecuniary interest) –

(a) in paragraphs (1) and (2) for “another member” in each of those paragraphs there shall be substituted “member”;

(b) in paragraphs (3), (4) and (6) for “another member” in each of those paragraphs there shall be substituted “a member”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 12th November 2002.

L.S.

Paul Martin

Senior Officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety