Version Superseded: 29/11/1999
Point in time view as at 18/10/1999. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Social Security Act 1998, Section 6 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 03 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)The Lord Chancellor shall constitute a panel of persons to act as members of appeal tribunals.
(2)Subject to subsection (3) below, the panel shall be composed of such persons as the Lord Chancellor thinks fit to appoint after consultation, in the case of medical practitioners, with the Chief Medical Officer.
(3)The panel shall include persons possessing such qualifications as may be prescribed by regulations made with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor.
(4)The numbers of persons appointed to the panel, and the terms and conditions of their appointments, shall be determined by the Lord Chancellor with the consent of the Secretary of State.
(5)A person may be removed from the panel by the Lord Chancellor on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour.
(6)In this section “the Chief Medical Officer” means—
(a)in relation to England, the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health;
(b)in relation to Wales, the Chief Medical Officer of the Welsh Office; and
(c)in relation to Scotland, the Chief Medical Officer of the [F1Scottish Administration].
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 6(6)(c) substituted (1.7.1999) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.1) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1042), art. 1(2)(c), Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 4; S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3
Commencement Information
I1S. 6(3) in force at 4.3.1999 for specified purposes by S.I. 1999/528, art. 2(a), Sch.
I2S. 6 in force at 1.6.1999 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 1999/1510, art. 2(c) (with arts. 48-51)
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