Sch 1 para 17 Education and Training Committee
(1) Subject to any provision made by this Order, the Council shall by rules make provision with regard to the constitution of the Education and Training Committee, and those rules shall include provision with regard to— (a) its size and membership; (b) the appointment, suspension and removal of its members; (c) its chair, including the deputising arrangements for its chair; and (d) the quorum at its meetings. (2) The rules may make provision for a body (including a committee of the Council other than the Education and Training Committee) to assist the Council in connection with the exercise of any function relating to the appointment of members or particular members of the Education and Training Committee, including any function relating to tenure of office or suspension or removal from office. (2A) The Council shall have regard, where appropriate, when appointing non-Council members to the Education and Training Committee, to the guidance issued by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. (2B) Subject to any provision made by or under this Order, including provision made by standing orders of the Council made under paragraph 13(d), the Education and Training Committee may regulate its own procedure. (3) No person who is a member of the Council or the Education and Training Committee by virtue of his membership of any profession may take part in any proceedings of the Committee in any period during which he is the subject of any investigations, proceedings or a determination against him concerning his fitness to practise his profession. (4) The powers of the Education and Training Committee may be exercised even though there is a vacancy among its members. (5) No proceedings of the Education and Training Committee shall be invalidated by any defect in the appointment of a member.