Constitution of panels
4.—(1) The National Assembly must, on receipt of an application made by an applicant in accordance with regulation 12, constitute a panel for the purpose of reviewing the qualifying determination.
(2) The members of the panel must be drawn from a list of persons appointed and serving as members of adoption agency panels in Wales (in these Regulations referred to as “the central list”), kept by the National Assembly who are considered by the National Assembly to be suitable, by virtue of their skills, qualifications or experience to be members of a panel.
(3) The members of the central list must include—
(a)Social workers within the meaning of Part IV Care Standards Act 2000 who have at least five years post-qualifying experience in adoption and family placement work; and
(b)other persons who are considered by the National Assembly to be suitable as members including, where reasonably practicable, persons with personal experience of adoption.