The General Chiropractic Council (Constitution of the Statutory Committees) Rules Order of Council 2009

Chair and deputy chair of the Investigating Committee

6.—(1) The General Council shall appoint as the chair of the Investigating Committee an ordinary member of the Committee who is a lay person.

(2) The term of office of the chair shall be determined by the General Council on appointment, but it shall be for a period that is no longer than the period between the chair’s date of appointment as chair and the date on which the chair’s term of office as a member of the Investigating Committee is due to expire (regardless of whether or not they are thereafter reappointed as a member).

(3) The member of the Investigating Committee serving as its chair shall cease to be its chair—

(a) if that person ceases to be a member of the Investigating Committee;

(b) if that person resigns as its chair, which that person may do at any time by a notice in writing to the General Council;

(c) if that person’s membership of the Investigating Committee is suspended by the General Council; or

(d) if the General Council votes to terminate that person’s appointment as chair.

(4) The General Council may nominate a member of the Investigating Committee who is a lay person to deputise for the chair (“the deputy chair”) if the chair is unable to perform the duties of the chair for any reason.

(5) A person serving as deputy chair of the Investigating Committee shall cease to be its deputy chair—

(a) if that person ceases to be a member of the Investigating Committee;

(b) if that person resigns as deputy chair, which that person may do at any time by a notice in writing to the General Council;

(c) if that person’s membership of the Investigating Committee is suspended by the General Council; or

(d) if the General Council votes to terminate that person’s appointment as deputy chair.

(6) If for any reason both the chair and any deputy chair of the Investigating Committee are absent from a meeting of the Committee, the members of the Committee who are present at that meeting shall nominate one of their number to serve as chair of that meeting.