[F148 Constitution of medical appeal tribunals.N.I.
(1)A medical appeal tribunal shall consist of a chairman and two other persons.
(2)The members other than the chairman shall be medical practitioners appointed by the President after consultation with such academic medical bodies as appear to him to be appropriate.
(3)The President shall nominate the chairman.
(4)The President may nominate as chairman—
(a)himself;
(b)one of the full-time chairmen appointed under section 49(1)(b) below; or
(c)a person drawn from the panel appointed by the Lord Chancellor under section 49(1)(c) below.
(5)The Department may make arrangements whereby a medical appeal tribunal for the purposes of the Great Britain Administration Act shall be a medical appeal tribunal for the purposes of this Act.
(6)Subject to subsections (1) to (4) above, the constitution of medical appeal tribunals shall be determined by regulations.
(7)Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect for supplementing this section.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 48 ceased to have effect (5.7.1999, 6.9.1999, 5.10.1999, 18.10.1999 and 29.11.1999 for different purposes, otherwiseprosp.) by virtue of S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10), arts. 1(2), 39(3); S.R. 1999/310, art. 2(1)(b), Sch. 1 (with arts. 4, 14); S.R. 1999/371, art. 2(b), Sch. 1 (with arts. 4, 18); S.R. 1999/407, art. 2(b), Sch. (with art. 4); S.R. 1999/428, art. 2(b), Sch. 1 (with arts. 4, 16) and S.R. 1999/472, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 20-22) (subject to art. 2(2) of the said S.R. 1999/472)
S. 48 repealed (29.11.1999 for certain purposes, otherwiseprosp.) by S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10), arts. 1(2), 78(2), Sch. 7; S.R. 1999/472, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 20-22) (subject to art. 2(2) of the said S.R. 1999/472)