The General Optical Council (Membership) Order of Council 1998

Further alteration of membership of the General Optical Council

3.—(1) The further alterations in the membership of the Council reflected in the amendments of Schedule 1 to the Act set out in paragraph (2) shall have effect from 1st January 2002.

(2) Schedule 1 to the Act shall be further amended as follows–

(a) in paragraph 1(b) for “seven” there shall be substituted “six”;

(b) in paragraph 1(c) for “three” there shall be substituted “five”;

(c) for paragraph 1(d) there shall be substituted–

“(d) four persons nominated by the examining bodies mentioned in this Schedule;”;

(d) paragraph 4(b), and at the end of that paragraph “and”, shall be repealed; and

(e) at the end of paragraph 4(c) there shall be added–

“; and

(d) one, who shall be a person engaged in the education or examination of persons training as dispensing opticians, shall be nominated by the Association of British Dispensing Opticians, after consulting–

(i) the Anglia Polytechnic University;

(ii) the Bradford and Ilkley Community College;

(iii) the City and Islington College (City Campus); and

(iv) the Glasgow Caledonian University.”.