PART 5 General

20 Appointment of assessor
1 The local review body may appoint a person to sit with the local review body at a hearing session to advise them on such matters arising as they may specify (“an assessor”) and where they do so they are to notify every person entitled to appear at the hearing session of the name of the assessor and of the matters on which the assessor is to advise them.
2 Where an assessor has been appointed, the assessor may (and if so required by the local review body, must), after the close of the hearing session, make a report in writing to the local review body in respect of the matters on which the assessor was appointed to advise.