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Amendment of section 17 of Act of 2007.
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13.— Section 17 of the Act of 2007 is amended—
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(a) in subsection (8), by the substitution of “Subject to subsection (8A), the 6 registered medical practitioners” for “The 6 registered medical practitioners”,
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(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (8):
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“(8A) The references in subsection (8) to the Specialist Division shall, for the purposes of the first election and appointment of medical practitioners under subsection (1)(f), be construed as references to the Register of Medical Specialists.”,
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(c) in subsection (9), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):
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“(b) a person appointed to be a member of the Council pursuant to section 9 of the Act of 1978 shall, subject to that Act, continue to be a member of the Council until the first appointment of persons to be members of the Council pursuant to subsection (1) whereupon the person shall cease to be a member of the Council unless he or she is one of those persons so first appointed.”,
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and
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(d) by the addition of the following subsection after subsection (9):
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“(10) Notwithstanding the appointment of persons to be members of the Council pursuant to this section, the Council may, without prejudice to section 4, perform any function assigned to it by any provision of the Act of 1978 until such provision is repealed.”.
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