Singapore legislation
Clause 35
Clause 35
Appointment of Complaints Committee
(1)
The President of the Council may from time to time appoint one or more committees comprising —
a chairman who is a member of the Council;
2 members of the Complaints Panel who are registered dentists; and
a member of the Complaints Panel who is a lay person,to be known as Complaints Committees, to inquire into any complaint or information referred to the Committees by the Council under section 33.
(2)
A Complaints Committee shall be appointed in connection with one or more matters or for a fixed period of time, as the President of the Council may think fit.
(3)
The President of the Council may at any time remove the chairman or any member of a Complaints Committee or fill any vacancy in a Complaints Committee.
(4)
No act done by or under the authority of a Complaints Committee shall be invalid in consequence of any defect that is subsequently discovered in the appointment or qualification of the chairman or members or any of them.
(5)
The chairman of a Complaints Committee shall, notwithstanding that he has ceased to be a member of the Council on the expiry of his term of office, continue to be the chairman of the Complaints Committee until such time as the Complaints Committee has completed its work.
(6)
A member of a Complaints Committee shall, notwithstanding that he has ceased to be a member of the Complaints Panel on the expiry of his term of office, continue to be a member of the Complaints Committee until such time as the Complaints Committee has completed its work.