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

Composition and quorum of the Investigating Committee

6.—(1) The membership of the Investigating Committee shall consist of not more than 15 persons who are lay persons and registered osteopaths appointed to the Committee by the General Council.

(2) Members of the Investigating Committee may attend only the proceedings of the Committee that they are invited to attend by the Registrar, or by a person duly authorised on the Registrar’s behalf to invite them.

(3) If the members of the Investigating Committee who are attending particular proceedings propose to co-opt a member for the purposes of consideration of those proceedings, approval for the co-option must be sought in accordance with rule 3.

(4) No ordinary member of the Investigating Committee may also be a member of the General Council.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), the terms of office of ordinary members of the Investigating Committee shall be determined by the General Council, on appointment, but no term of office shall be longer than 4 years.

(6) No person may serve on the Investigating Committee for longer than an aggregate of 8 years, and for these purposes, service as a member of the Committee before 1st April 2005 is to be discounted.

(7) The panel of ordinary members and any co-opted members attending particular proceedings of the Investigating Committee may perform any functions of the Committee that are relevant to those proceedings.

(8) The quorum of the Investigating Committee shall be 5 of which at least 2 must be lay persons and 2 registered osteopaths.