{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-living-allowance-and-disability-working-allowance-act-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-living-allowance-and-disability-working-allowance-act-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/21",
  "legislation_title": "Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-living-allowance-and-disability-working-allowance-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following Schedule shall be inserted after that Schedule—\n“Schedule 10A\nDisability Appeal Tribunals\n1 A disability appeal tribunal shall consist of a chairman and two other persons.\n2 Section 97(2C) to (2E) above shall have effect in relation to the chairman of a disability appeal tribunal as they have effect in relation to the chairman of a social security appeal tribunal.\n3 The President shall constitute for the whole of Great Britain, to act for such areas as he thinks fit and be composed of such persons as he thinks fit to appoint, panels of persons to act as members of disability appeal tribunals.\n4 There shall be two panels for each area.\n5 One panel shall be composed of medical practitioners.\n6 The other shall be composed of persons who are experienced in dealing with the needs of disabled persons—\n(a) in a professional or voluntary capacity; or\n(b) because they are themselves disabled,\nbut may not include medical practitioners.\n7 In considering the appointment of members of the panels the President shall have regard to the desirability of appointing disabled persons.\n8 Paragraph 1(2A) and (6) of Schedule 10 above have effect in relation to panels constituted under this Schedule as they have effect in relation to the panels mentioned in section 97(2A) of this Act.\n9 Of the members of a tribunal other than the chairman one shall be drawn from the panel mentioned in paragraph 5 above.\n10 The other shall be drawn from the panel mentioned in paragraph 6 above.\n11 Paragraphs 1A(11) and 1B to 3 of Schedule 10 above apply to disability appeal tribunals as they apply to social security appeal tribunals.\n12 In summoning members of a panel to serve on a tribunal, the clerk to the tribunal shall have regard to the desirability of at least one of the members of the tribunal being a disabled person.\n13 If practicable, at least one of the members of the tribunal shall be of the same sex as the claimant.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 16 wholly in force at 3.2.1992 see s. 15(2) and S.I. 1991/2617, art. 2(d)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/21/schedule/1/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:39:01.279452+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}