The Department shall draw up and revise a panel of persons to act as chairmen and other members of rent assessment committees.

The panel shall consist of a number of persons appointed by the Department,F2. . .

The Department shall nominate one person on the panel to act as rent officer and may nominate another person on the panel to act as deputy rent officer.

Subject to paragraphs 5 to 8, the number of rent assessment committees, the areas for which any such committees shall act and the constitution of those committees shall be determined by the rent officer or, in the case of the rent officer's absence or incapacity, by the deputy rent officer.

Subject to paragraph 6, each rent assessment committee shall consist of a chairman and one or two other members.

The rent officer may, if he thinks fit, direct that when dealing with a case in such circumstances as may be specified in the direction, the chairman sitting alone may, with the consent of the parties, exercise the functions of a rent assessment committee.

There shall be paid to members of the panel such remuneration and allowances as the Department, with the consent of the Department of the Civil Service, may determine.

The Department may make available to rent assessment committees such of its officers as it considers necessary.