Decision of tribunal
7.—(1) Where a tribunal is composed of three members its decision may be taken by a majority; and if a tribunal is composed of two members only, the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
(2) The decision of a tribunal shall be recorded in a document signed by the chairman which shall contain the reasons for the decision.
(3) The clerk shall transmit the document signed by the chairman to the Secretary who shall enter it in the Register and shall send a copy of the entry to each of the parties.
(4) The reasons for the decision shall be omitted from the Register in any case in which evidence has been heard in private and the tribunal so directs.
(5) In any appeal appearing to involve allegations of a sexual offence, the document referred to in paragraph (3) shall be entered on the Register with such deletions or amendments as have been made in accordance with rule 10(4).
(6) The chairman shall have power by certificate to correct in the document recording the tribunal’s decision clerical mistakes or errors arising therein from any accidental slip or omission.
(7) The clerk shall send a copy of any document corrected under paragraph (6) and the certificate of the chairman to the Secretary who shall as soon as practicable make such corrections as may be necessary in the Register and shall send a copy of the corrected entry or of the corrected reasons, as the case may be, to each of the parties.
(8) If any decision is –
(a)corrected under paragraph (6);
(b)revoked or varied under rule 8; or
(c)altered in any way by order of a superior court,
the Secretary shall alter the entry in the Register to conform with any such certificate or order and shall send a copy of the new entry to each of the parties and, where the proceedings were referred to the tribunal by a court, to that court.
(9) Where this rule requires a document to be signed by the chairman of a tribunal composed of three or two persons, but by reason of death or incapacity the chairman is unable to sign it, the document shall be signed by the other members or member of the tribunal, who shall certify that the chairman is unable to sign.