Section 1.
1The Council shall consist of:—
(1)four persons, who (subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Schedule) shall be registered persons and who shall be employers of persons engaged in hairdressing, or self-employed persons engaged in hairdressing, of whom two shall be appointed by the National Hairdressers Federation and two shall be appointed by the Incorporated Guild of Hairdressers, Wigmakers and Perfumers ;
(2)four persons, who (subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Schedule) shall be registered persons and who shall be employees engaged in hairdressing, to be appointed by the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers ;
(3)one person appointed by the President of the British Medical Association ;
(4)one person appointed by the President of the Royal College of Physicians of London ;
(5)five persons appointed (subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Schedule) by the members of the Council appointed under sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of this paragraph from among persons appearing to them to have had wide experience of, and shown capacity in, industry, commerce, administration, finance, or the practice of the law, or to have, in some other respect, special knowledge or experience that would be of value to the Council in the exercise and performance of its functions.
2(1)The persons first to be appointed in pursuance of sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall not be registered persons but shall be persons who at the passing of this Act are employers of persons engaged in hairdressing or persons self-employed in hairdressing or (as the case may be) employees engaged in hairdressing and shall be persons registered by the Hairdressers' Registration Council, that is to say, the company registered by that name under the [8 Edw. 7 c. 69.] Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908.
(2)The persons first to be appointed in pursuance of sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall be appointed by the Hairdressers' Registration Council from among persons appearing to it to have the qualifications mentioned in that sub-paragraph.
3(1)Before the National Hairdressers Federation and the Incorporated Guild of Hairdressers, Wigmakers and Perfumers proceed to appoint the Members of the Hairdressing Council under sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule they shall consult together and shall ensure that not less than two of the persons to be appointed under the said sub-paragraph (1) shall be persons engaged in ladies' hairdressing.
(2)Not less than two of the persons to be appointed under sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall be persons engaged in ladies' hairdressing.
4The Hairdressing Council shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.
5The first members of the Hairdressing Council shall be appointed within six months of the passing of this Act.
6(1)Of the members first appointed under sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule one-fourth shall retire on the thirty-first day of December in each of the years 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968.
(2)The term of office of the members subsequently appointed under those sub-paragraphs shall be four years.
(3)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph the order of retirement of members shall be determined in default of agreement by lot at a meeting of the Council within four months after the first meeting of the Council, the lots being drawn under the direction of the person presiding at the meeting.
7The term of office of the members appointed under sub-paragraphs (3) to (5) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall be three years.
8A member of the Hairdressing Council may at any time by notice in writing addressed to the registrar resign his office.
9(1)A person appointed to fill a casual vacancy among the members of the Council shall hold office during the remainder of the term of office of the person in whose place he is appointed.
(2)Any vacancy other than a casual vacancy in the membership of the Hairdressing Council shall be filled before the date on which the vacancy will occur.
10(1)The Hairdressing Council shall have power to do anything which in their opinion is calculated to facilitate the proper discharge of their functions.
(2)The Council shall, in particular, have power:—
(a)to appoint, in addition to a registrar, such officers and servants as the Council may determine ;
(b)to pay to the members of the Council or their committees such fees for attendance at meetings of the Council or their committees and such travelling and subsistence allowances while attending such meetings or while on any other business of the Council as the Council may determine ;
(c)to pay to their officers and servants such remuneration as the Council may determine ;
(d)as regards any officers or servants in whose case they may determine to do so, to pay to, or in respect of them, such pensions and gratuities, or provide and maintain for them such superannuation .schemes (whether contributory or not), as the Council may determine.
(3)The powers of the Council may be exercised notwithstanding any vacancy, and no proceedings of the Council shall be invalidated by any defect in the appointment of a member.
11The Hairdressing Council may make regulations for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Council.
12No business shall be transacted at a meeting of the Hairdressing Council unless at least five members are present.