Rent Act 1977

Section 65.

SCHEDULE 10 Rent Assessment Committees

1 The Secretary of State shall draw up and from time to time revise panels of persons to act as chairmen and other members of rent assessment committees for such areas, comprising together every registration area, as the Secretary of State may from time to time determine.

2 Each panel shall consist of a number of persons appointed by the Lord Chancellor and a number of persons appointed by the Secretary of State and, if the Secretory of State thinks fit, a number of persons appointed by him to act only in cases of absence or incapacity of other members of the panel.

3 The Secretary of State shall nominate one of the persons appointed by the Lord Chancellor to act as president of the panel, and one or more such persons to act as vice-president or vice-presidents.

4 Subject to this Schedule, the number of rent assessment committees to act for an area and the constitution of those committees shall be determined by the president of the panel formed for that area or, in the case of the president's absence or incapacity, by the vice-president or, as the case may be, one of the vice-presidents.

5 Subject to paragraph 6 below, each rent assessment committee shall consist of a chairman and one or two other members, and the chairman shall be either the president or vice-president (or, as the case may be, one of the vice-presidents) of the panel or one of the other members appointed by the Lord Chancellor.

6 The president of the panel may, if he thinks fit, direct that when dealing with such cases or dealing with a case in such circumstances as may be specified in the direction, the chairman sitting alone may, with the consent of the parties, exercise the functions of a rent assessment committee.

7 There shall be paid to members of panels such remuneration and allowances as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service, may determine.

8 The President of the panel may appoint, with the approval of the Secretary of State as to numbers, such clerks and other officers and servants of rent assessment committees as he thinks fit, and there shall be paid to the clerks and other officers and servants such salaries and allowances as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service, may determine.

9 There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament—

(a) the remuneration and allowances of members of panels;

(b) the salaries and allowances of clerks and other officers and servants appointed under this Schedule ; and

(c) such other expenses of a panel as the Minister for the Civil Service may determine.

10 Any reference to remuneration, salaries or allowances in this Schedule includes a reference to remuneration or, as the case may be, salaries or allowances, in respect of functions conferred by regulations under paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the [1975 c. 6.] Housing Rents and Subsidies Act 1975 ; and the reference to expenses in paragraph 9(c) above includes a reference to expenses incurred in the discharge of such functions.