Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 1848

The General Osteopathic Council (Legal Assessors) Rules Order of Council 1999

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"the Act" means the Osteopaths Act 1993;

"the Committee" means the Investigating Committee, the Professional Conduct Committee, or the Health Committee as the case may be;

"Legal Assessor" means an Assessor appointed under section 27 of the Osteopaths Act 1993.

Additional Functions
     3. A Legal Assessor shall have the following additional functions - 

(a) to give advice to the General Council on questions of law arising in connection with any matter which the General Council is considering;

(b) to be present at such meetings of the Committee as the Committee may request at which an allegation against a registered osteopath is being considered and to advise on any questions of law arising which may be referred to him by the Committee;

(c) to inform the General Council or the Committee forthwith of any irregularity in the General Council's or the Committee's consideration of any complaint or in the conduct of any proceedings before the General Council or that Committee which may come to his knowledge and to advise it of his own motion where it appears to him that but for such advice, there is a possibility of a mistake of law being made;

(d) to be present at such meetings of the General Council as the General Council may require at which an appeal under section 29 of the Act is being considered, to advise on any question of law arising which may be referred to him by the General Council and to question any witness giving evidence at an oral hearing of such an appeal.

Simon Fielding [a]
Chairman

[2] 1993 c. 21, section 27 was amended by the Chiropractors Act 1994 (c. 17), Schedule 2.back

Simon Fielding
Chairman

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