8 Interim action by and in relation to local valuation panels
For the purposes of the appointment of any officer or the taking of any other action, and the incurring of any expenditure in relation thereto, by a local valuation panel established by a scheme to which this article applies to ensure the effective operation of the panel and of local valuation courts as from 1st April 1967—
(a) where the scheme provides for the appointment of any chairman, vice-chairman or member of a panel the appointment may be made in accordance with the scheme at any time after the approval of the scheme and the person appointed shall be deemed to have come into office at his appointment;
(b) the scheme shall be deemed to have been in operation at all material times.
The schemes to which this article applies are the schemes for the constitution of local valuation panels made by the Greater London Council, the county councils of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey and the councils of the county boroughs of Canterbury and Southend-on-Sea in pursuance of paragraph 19(2) of Schedule 15 to the Act.