6(1)For the purposes of the tribunal's jurisdiction under Part IV of the Road Traffic Act, 1960, there shall be a special panel consisting of such number of persons nominated by the Lord Chancellor, such number of persons nominated by the Secretary of State and such number of persons nominated by the Minister, as the Minister may direct.
(2)A member of the special panel shall hold office for such term, not exceeding three years from the date of his appointment, as may be determined at the time of the appointment, and then retire, but shall be eligible for re-appointment.
(3)A person shall not be appointed under this paragraph for a term extending beyond the end of the completed year of service in the course of which he attains the age of seventy years, except that where the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary of State or the Minister, as the case may be, consider it to be desirable in the public interest that a person should be appointed for a term extending beyond that date, that person may, with the approval of the Treasury, be appointed for such term not extending beyond the date on which he attains the age of seventy-five years, as the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary of State or the Minister, as the case may be, thinks fit.
(4)Sub-paragraph (3) of the last foregoing paragraph shall apply in relation to a person appointed under this paragraph as it applies in relation to a person appointed under that paragraph.