Part IIAdjudication

Disability appeal tribunals

41Constitution of disability appeal tribunals

1

A disability appeal tribunal shall consist of a chairman and two other persons.

2

Of the members of a tribunal other than the chairman, one shall be drawn from the panel mentioned in subsection (3) of section 40 above.

3

The other shall be drawn from the panel mentioned in subsection (4) of that section.

4

The President shall nominate the chairman.

5

The President may nominate as chairman—

a

himself;

b

one of the full-time chairmen appointed under section 49(1)(b) below; or

c

a person drawn from the panel appointed by the Lord Chancellor under section 49(1)(c) below.

6

In summoning members of a panel to serve on a tribunal, the clerk to the tribunal shall have regard to the desirability of at least one of the members of the tribunal being a disabled person.

7

If practicable, at least one of the members of the tribunal shall be of the same sex as the claimant.

8

Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect for supplementing this section.