The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Health and Education Chamber (Procedure) Regulations 2017

Decisions on references

48.—(1) A decision of the First-tier Tribunal on a reference may be reached by a majority, but where the Tribunal is constituted by a legal member and one ordinary member in terms of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Health and Education Chamber and Upper Tribunal for Scotland (Composition) Regulations 2018(1) the legal member shall have a second or casting vote.

(2) The decision of the First-tier Tribunal may be given orally at the end of the hearing or may be reserved and, in any event, whether there has been a hearing or not, the Tribunal shall inform each party of the decision which shall as soon as may be practicable be recorded in a document signed by the legal member which contains a full statement of the facts found by the Tribunal and the reasons for the decision.

(3) The First-tier Tribunal shall—

(a) as soon as practicable after it is prepared send a copy of the document referred to in paragraph (2) to each party and send notice about the circumstances in which there is a right to appeal under section 21 of the 2004 Act against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal;

(b) enter such details in the Register as the Chamber President may from time to time direct under section 74(2) of the 2014 Act; and

(c) where the circumstances mentioned in section 19(5)(c) of the 2004 Act apply, notify the appeal committee of the reference to the committee of the First-tier Tribunal’s decision.

(1)

S.S.I. 2018/    , regulation 2(4).