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5.—(1) For all cases which have been referred to the Board, the Board chair must appoint one member of the Board to constitute a panel to consider the release of a prisoner or advise the Secretary of State in accordance with Part 3 (proceedings on the papers).
(2) If following consideration on the papers under Part 3, a case must be considered by an oral panel under rule 16, the Board chair must appoint one or more members of the Board to constitute a panel to hear that case in accordance with Part 4 (proceedings before an oral panel).
(3) A panel appointed under paragraph (2) is to be chaired by—
(a)where a panel is constituted of more than one member, the member of the panel appointed by the Board Chair for this purpose;
(b)where a panel is constituted of only one member, that member.
(4) A person appointed under paragraph (1) may, in the same case, sit on an oral panel appointed under paragraph (2).
(5) The Board chair may appoint a member of the Board to carry out any function under rule 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22 or 26, or any other function as required, and such a member is referred to in these Rules as a “duty member”.
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