Part II C1 Adjudication
Adjudicating medical practitioners and medical appeal tribunals
F147 Adjudicating medical practitioners.
1
Adjudicating medical practitioners shall be appointed by the Department.
2
The Department may make arrangements whereby any adjudicating medical practitioners for the purposes of the Great Britain Administration Act shall be adjudicating medical practitioners for the purposes of this Act.
3
Subject to subsections (1) and (2) above, the appointment of adjudicating medical practitioners shall be determined by regulations.
F248 Constitution of medical appeal tribunals.
1
A medical appeal tribunal shall consist of a chairman and two other persons.
2
The members other than the chairman shall be medical practitioners appointed by the President after consultation with such academic medical bodies as appear to him to be appropriate.
3
The President shall nominate the chairman.
4
The President may nominate as chairman—
a
himself;
b
one of the full-time chairmen appointed under section 49(1)(b) below; or
c
a person drawn from the panel appointed by the Lord Chancellor under section 49(1)(c) below.
5
The Department may make arrangements whereby a medical appeal tribunal for the purposes of the Great Britain Administration Act shall be a medical appeal tribunal for the purposes of this Act.
6
Subject to subsections (1) to (4) above, the constitution of medical appeal tribunals shall be determined by regulations.
7
Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect for supplementing this section.
Part II (ss. 15-68): Power to modify conferred (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 116(2), 171(8), 173(4) (with s. 108(5))
Part II (ss. 15-68): Power to modify conferred (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 117(1), 171(8), 173(4) (with s. 108(5))
Part II (ss. 15-68): Power to modify conferred (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 119, 171(8), 173(4) (with s. 108(5))
Part II (ss. 15-68) amended (25.8.1995) by S.R. 1995/293, reg. 43(2)
Part II (ss. 15-68) applied (with modifications) (25.8.1995) by S.R. 1995/293, reg. 44(2)(a)
Part II (ss. 15-68): power to modify (temp.) conferred (24.3.1999) by S.I. 1999/671, arts. 1(2)(c), 14(2)(a)
Part. II (ss. 15-68) (except ss. 22 and 50) ceased to have effect (5.7.1999, 6.9.1999, 5.10.1999, 18.10.1999 and 29.11.1999 for different purposes, otherwiseprosp.) by virtue of S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10), arts. 1(2), 39(3) (with transitory provisions in Sch. 5); S.R. 1999/310, art. 2(1)(b), Sch. 1 (with arts. 4, 14); S.R. 1999/371, art. 2(b), Sch. 1 (with arts. 4, 18); S.R. 1999/407, art. 2(b), Sch. (with art. 4); S.R. 1999/428, art. 2(b), Sch. 1 (with arts. 4, 16) and S.R. 1999/472, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 20-22 and subject to art. 2(2) of that S.R.)