PART 5

Risk of being drawn into terrorism
CHAPTER 2

Support etc for people vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism

Membership and proceedings of panels
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1
The members of a panel must include—
a
the responsible local authority;
b
the chief officer of police for a police area the whole or any part of which is in the area of that authority.
2
Each of those members must appoint a person to represent them on the panel; and the representative must be a person whom the member concerned considers to have the required skills and experience.
3
Where more than one chief officer of police comes within subsection (1)(b), a person may represent more than one of the chief officers; but at any meeting of the panel at which an identified individual is to be discussed there must be a person present from the police force for the area in which the individual resides to act as the representative.
4
A panel may also include such other persons as the responsible local authority considers appropriate (whether generally or in the case of a particular identified individual).
5
The chair of a panel is the responsible local authority; but where more than one local authority is the responsible local authority, the authorities may determine that one (or more) of them is to be the chair.
6
If a panel cannot reach a unanimous decision on a question arising before it, the question must be decided—
a
according to the opinion of the majority of the panel, or
b
if there is no majority opinion, by the chair.
7
Subject to subsection (6), a panel may determine its own procedure.
S. 37 in force at 12.4.2015, see s. 52(2)(a)