The Mental Nurses Committee
5The Mental Nurses Committee
(1)There shall be a Committee of the Council, to be called the Mental Nurses Committee, constituted in accordance with the provisions contained in the Third Schedule to this Act.
(2)The following matters, namely—
(a)any matter which wholly or mainly concerns registered mental nurses or registered nurses for mental defectives (other than a question whether a person shall be registered or shall be removed from or restored to the register or a matter arising out of any such question); and
(b)any matter relating to the training of persons for admission to the supplementary part of the register containing the names of nurses trained in the nursing and care of persons suffering from mental diseases or to the supplementary part of the register containing the names of nurses trained in the nursing and care of persons suffering from mental defect,
shall stand referred to the Mental Nurses Committee, and any such question as aforesaid or matter arising thereout, and any other matter, may be referred by the Council to that Committee ; and the Committee shall consider all such matters and report upon them to the Council, and the Council, before taking any action on any such matter, shall, unless in the opinion of the Council the matter is urgent, receive and consider the report of the Committee:
Provided that any matter which stands referred to the Mental Nurses Committee or is referred to them by the Council shall be finally dealt with by the Committee on behalf of the Council if, and in so far as, the Council expressly authorise the Committee to deal finally with it, and the Committee shall make a report to the Council as to the way they have dealt with it.
(3)The supplementary provisions contained in the Third Schedule to this Act shall have effect with respect to the Mental Nurses Committee.