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26. This part shall apply in relation to any selection panel constituted in accordance with the provision made by the articles of government for any county, controlled, special agreement or maintained special school by virtue of section 36(1) of, or paragraph 22 of Schedule 2 to, the 1986 Act.
27.—(1) The proceedings of a selection panel shall be under the control of the panel and any question coming or arising before such a panel shall be decided by a majority of its members (including any not voting on the question), with no member of the panel having a second or casting vote.
(2) Meetings of such panels shall be requisitioned by the local education authority concerned as occasion may require:
Provided that the authority shall give the governing body of the school reasonable notice of any such meeting.
(3) Any question whether a person who is neither a member of such a panel nor the chief education officer of the local education authority concerned (or a member of his department nominated by him), should be entitled to attend any proceedings of the panel (including interviews), shall be decided by the panel.