Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Act 2017

Amendment of section 9 of Principal Act

2. Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (7) (amended by section 3(b) of the Act of 2012)—

(i) in paragraph (a), by the substitution of “being designated in section 4(1) or by regulation under section 4(2)” for “being designated by regulation”, and

(ii) in paragraph (b), by the insertion of “to fill a casual vacancy or” after “to the Council”,

and

(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (8) (inserted by section 7 of the Act of 2014):

“(9) In this section, ‘casual vacancy’ has the same meaning as it has in Schedule 1.”.