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Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992

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Adjudicating medical practitioners and medical appeal tribunals

47Adjudicating 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.

48Constitution 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.

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