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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Amendments and Transitional Provisions

PART IMinor and Consequential Amendments

Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30)

32(1)Part I of Schedule 3 to the Act of 1980 (constitution etc. of Social Security Advisory Committee) is amended as follows.

(2)In paragraph 1 for the words " not less than 8 nor more than 11 " there are substituted the words " not less than 10 nor more than 13 ".

(3)In paragraph 2 for the words from the beginning to " but any member— " there is substituted the following—

2(1)Each member of the Committee shall be appointed to hold office for such period of not more than 5 years, nor less than 3 years, as the Secretary of State shall determine.

(2)The Secretary of State may, at any time before the expiration of the term of office of any member, extend or further extend that member's term of office; but no one extension shall be for a period of more than 5 years from the date when the term of office would otherwise expire.

(3)Any member—.