Dr. Jean-Marie HEYDT, President of the Executive Committee - North South Center of the Council of Europe, Written contribution

In section 7(1)(b) of the principal Act after the words “serious misconduct in connection with the dispensing of hearing aids” there shall be inserted the words or the training of persons to act as dispensers of hearing aids; or.

In section 10(4)(e) of that Act for the words “serious misconduct in the dispensing of hearing aids” there shall be substituted the words “such misconduct or such a contravention as is mentioned in section 7(1)(b) or (c) of this Act” and after the words “such misconduct” there shall be inserted the words “or contravention”.

In section 5(1) of the principal Act for the words “liable to have his name erased from the register or list on any grounds specified in section 7 of this Act” there shall be substituted the words “liable to be dealt with under section 7 of this Act on any of the grounds specified in that section.”

In subsection (1) of section 7 of that Act for the words “direct that his name shall be erased from the register” there shall be substituted the words impose any one or more of the following penalties—

In subsection (2) of that section for the words “direct that the name of the person shall be erased from the register” there shall be substituted the words “impose on that person any one or more of the penalties mentioned in subsection (1) of this section.”

In subsection (3) of that section—

After subsection (4) of that section there shall be inserted—

In subsection (1) of section 9 of that Act for the words “have under section 7 of this Act directed that the name of a person shall be erased from the register” there shall be substituted the words “have imposed a penalty under section 7 of this Act”; and in subsections (3) and (4) of that section for the word “direction”, wherever it occurs, there shall be substituted the word “penalty”.

In section 10 of that Act—

The Schedule to the principal Act shall be amended as follows.

In paragraph 1(1) for the word “eleven” there shall be substituted the word “twelve”.

In paragraph 1(3)(a) for the word “six” there shall be substituted the word “four”.

For paragraph 1(3)(b) there shall be substituted—

In paragraph 2(2) after the words “members of the Council”, where they first occur, there shall be inserted the words “other than the Chairman”.

This Act may be cited as the Hearing Aid Council (Amendment) Act 1989.

Section 5 above shall come into force on 1st January 1990 and the other provisions of this Act at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.

This Act extends to Northern Ireland.