Health and Personal Social Services (Disciplinary Procedures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

8.  In this Schedule—

(a) “lay member” means, in relation to a discipline committee or joint discipline committee, any member (other than the chairman) who is a lay person;

(b) “lay person” means a person who is not and never has been—

(i) a doctor, a dentist, an ophthalmic medical practitioner, an optician or a chemist,

(ii) a registered dispensing optician within the meaning of the Opticians Act 1989(1),

(iii) a registered nurse, a registered midwife or a registered health visitor(2), nor

(iv) an officer of, or otherwise employed by, any Board, the Agency or a Health and Social Services Council established under Article 4 of the 1991 Order(3);

(c) “professional person” means—

(i) in the case of the medical discipline committee, a doctor,

(ii) in the case of the dental discipline committee, a dentist,

(iii) in the case of a pharmaceutical discipline committee, a pharmacist,

(iv) in the case of an ophthalmic discipline committee, an ophthalmic medical practitioner or an optician,

(v) in the case of the joint discipline committee, a member appointed by a discipline committee.

(1)

1989 c. 44

(2)

See section 10(7) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (c. 36)

(3)

S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1)