Article 3 Attendance of legal assessors

In all proceedings in which a legal assessor must, by virtue of paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 4 to the 1983 Act (proceedings before the Investigation Committee, Interim Orders Panels and Fitness to Practise Panels – legal assessors), be appointed, the Committee or Panel conducting those proceedings shall not hold any meeting or hearing in respect of those proceedings in the absence of the legal assessor appointed in those proceedings.