Appointment of members to panels: further provision
103.—(1) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), a civil engineer who wishes to be appointed to a panel under section 102(1)(b) must make an appropriate application.
(2) The Department may by regulations make provision as to the information to be provided by a civil engineer making an appropriate application.
(3) The first appointment under paragraph (b) of section 102(1) of members of the panels established under paragraph (a) of that section are to be made (without a requirement of an appropriate application) in accordance with subsection (4).
(4) The Department may appoint such civil engineers who are (as at the date of commencement of section 102) members of the panels constituted under section 4 of the 1975 Act, as it considers appropriate.
(5) An appointment under this section is for such period as the Department determines.
(6) A civil engineer appointed to a panel is eligible for re-appointment.
(7) In this section—
(a)“an appropriate application” is an application made in accordance with arrangements made by the Department and accompanied by payment of the appropriate fee,
(b)“the appropriate fee” is a fee of such amount as may be determined in accordance with arrangements made by the Department.