Paragraph 4 Establishment of the Tribunal

As soon as practicable after the Registrar receives an appeal, the Chairman of the Council shall request either the Chairman of the General Council of the Bar or the President of the Law Society (or a person authorised by either of them) to select a person to act as the chairman of the appeal tribunal to hear the appeal (in these Rules referred to as “the Tribunal”).

The chairman of the Tribunal selected under paragraph (1) shall be a person who is qualified as mentioned in section 27(4) of the Act and who is willing and able to act as chairman in the appeal.

The member of the Tribunal referred to in section 30(7)(a) of the Act shall be a fully registered chiropractor willing and able to act in the appeal who is selected by the chairman of the Tribunal appointed under paragraph (1) from a list kept by the Registrar of fully registered chiropractors who have agreed to sit on appeal tribunals established under section 30 of the Act.

The member of the Tribunal referred to in section 30(7)(b) of the Act shall be a registered medical practitioner willing and able to act in the appeal who is selected at the request of the chairman of the Tribunal by the President of the General Medical Council (or a person authorised by him).

A member of the Council or of a committee or sub-committee of the Council shall not be appointed a member of the Tribunal.

A member of the Tribunal shall be entitled to the payment by the Council of his reasonable fees relating to his functions in connection with the Tribunal, which fees shall be determined in the event of a disagreement as to what those fees should be by a person appointed for the purpose—

and the reasonable costs of any such determination shall be payable by the parties to the disagreement in such proportions as the person determining the issue directs.