Regulation 68 Power to exercise the functions of the President and ChairI1
England and Wales
(1)
A Chair may exercise any function which these Regulations require or authorise the President to do.
(2)
Where in accordance with paragraph (1), a Chair—
(a)
is required to select the Chair to a tribunal panel, a Chair may select themselves;
(b)
makes a decision, regulations 53 and 55 apply in relation to that decision as if they referred to a Chair in place of the President.
(3)
Subject to regulation 73(6), in the event of the death or incapacity of the Chair, or if the Chair ceases to be a member of the legal chair’s panel, following the decision of the tribunal panel, the functions of the Chair may be exercised by the President or another Chair appointed from the legal chair’s panel.