Section 17.
1(1)Any person appointed by the appropriate authority before 1st January 1959 to be chairman of any tribunal to which section 7(1) of this Act applies shall from that day and during the continuance of his appointment be deemed to be, and to have been, a member of a panel constituted by the Lord Chancellor for the purposes of that tribunal and to have been selected by the appropriate authority to be chairman of the tribunal.
(2)Any person appointed by the appropriate authority before 1st January 1959 to be a member of a panel from which apart from this Act the chairman of the tribunal would fall to be selected shall from that day and during the continuance of his appointment be deemed to be, and to have been, a member of a panel constituted by the Lord Chancellor for the purposes of that tribunal.
(3)Any power to terminate any such appointment as is mentioned in the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall be exercisable by, and only by, the Lord Chancellor.
(4)Subsections (5), (7) and (8) of section 7 of this Act shall have effect in relation to this paragraph as they have effect in relation to that section.
2Any rules in force in Scotland by virtue of section 7A of the M1Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958 immediately before 13th December 1966 shall, if in force at the commencement of this Act, continue in force as if made under section 11 of this Act.
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