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PART IGeneral Provisions as to the General Nursing Council for Scotland, etc.

The Assistant Nurses Committee

4The Assistant Nurses Committee

(1)There shall be a Committee of the Council, to be called the Assistant Nurses Committee, constituted in accordance with the provisions contained in the Second Schedule to this Act.

(2)Any matter which wholly or mainly concerns assistant nurses shall stand referred to the Assistant Nurses Committee and any other matter may be referred by the Council to that Committee; and the Committee shall consider the matter and report upon it to the Council, and the Council, before taking any action on the matter, shall, unless in the opinion of the Council the matter is urgent, receive and consider the report of the Committee:

Provided that the following matters, that is to say—

(a)any question whether any person shall be removed from or restored to the roll, and any matter arising out of any such question; and

(b)any other matter referred to the Committee in so far as the Council expressly authorise the Committee to deal with it,

shall be finally dealt with by the Committee on behalf of the Council, 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 Second Schedule to this Act shall have effect with respect to the Assistant Nurses Committee.