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Part IIE+W+S General Medical, General Dental, General Ophthalmic, and Pharmaceutical Services

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. II modified by S.I. 1982/288, Sch. 2 para. 1 Table

C2Pt. II restricted (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 12; S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(a), Sch. 1

C3Pt. II power to modify conferred (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 15(2)(a); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1

Pt. II power to apply conferred (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 15(2)(b); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(1)(b), Sch. 1

Local representative committeesE+W+S

44 Recognition of local representative committees.E+W+S

(1)Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a committee formed for the [F1locality of any Family Practitioner Committee] is representative —

(a)of the medical practitioners providing general medical services or general ophthalmic services in that [F2locality], or

(b)of the dental practitioners providing general dental services in that [F2locality], or

(c)of the ophthalmic opticians . . . F3 providing general ophthalmic services in that [F2locality], or

(d)of the persons providing pharmaceutical services in that [F2locality],

he may recognise that committee; and any committee so recognised shall be called the Local Medical Committee, the Local Dental Committee, the Local Optical Committee or the Local Pharmaceutical Committee, as the case may be, for the [F2locality] concerned.

(2)Any such committee may with the Secretary of State’s approval delegate any of their functions, with or without restrictions or conditions, to sub-committees composed of members of that committee.