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Part IThe General Optical Council

The Council’s Committees

5The Disciplinary Committee

(1)There shall continue to be a committee of the Council known as the Disciplinary Committee, for the consideration and determination—

(a)of disciplinary cases referred to them under section 4 above; and

(b)of any other cases of which they have cognizance under the following provisions of this Act.

(2)The Council shall make rules—

(a)as to the constitution of the Disciplinary Committee;

(b)as to the times and places of the meetings of the Committee; and

(c)as to the Committee’s quorum; and the mode of summoning members of the Committee.

(3)Rules under this section shall secure that a person, other than the Chairman of the Council, who has acted in relation to any disciplinary case as a member of the Investigating Committee does not act in relation to that case as a member of the Disciplinary Committee.