44Recognition of local representative committees
(1)Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a committee formed for the area of any Area Health Authority is representative—
(a)of the medical practitioners providing general medical services or general ophthalmic services in that area, or
(b)of the dental practitioners providing general dental services in that area, or
(c)of the ophthalmic opticians and dispensing opticians providing general ophthalmic services in that area, or
(d)of the persons providing pharmaceutical services in that area,
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 area 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.