PART IIDECISIONS AND APPEALS

CHAPTER IGENERAL

Appeals

Unified appeal tribunals5

1

Subject to the provisions of this Order—

a

the functions of social security appeal tribunals, disability appeal tribunals and medical appeal tribunals constituted under Part II of the Administration Act;

b

the functions of child support appeal tribunals established under Article 23 of the Child Support Order; and

c

the functions of vaccine damage tribunals established by regulations made under section 4 of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act,

are hereby transferred to appeal tribunals constituted under the following provisions of this Chapter.

2

Accordingly appeals under—

a

Article 13;

b

Article 22 of the Child Support Order, as substituted by Article 42;

c

section 4 of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act, as substituted by section 46 of the [1998 c.14.] Social Security Act 1998; and

d

Article 13 of the Recovery of Benefits Order,

shall be determined by appeal tribunals so constituted (in the following provisions of this Chapter referred to as “appeal tribunals”).