PART 3CONSTITUTION OF APPEAL PANELS

Other members of appeal panels13

1

Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 19(1) and (2), the Department shall appoint a list of persons to act as other members of the appeal panels.

2

In appointing persons under paragraph (1) the Department shall have regard to the desirability of securing that the list of such persons includes members who (between them) have experience in or knowledge of—

a

the provision of services which the Department can fund as civil legal services,

b

the work of the courts and tribunals, and

c

the provision of expert services or testimony in cases which can be funded by way of civil legal services.