Paragraph 3
The board of medical referees shall consist of not less than three medical practitioners appointed by, and in accordance with, arrangements approved by the Secretary of State, provided that—
at least one member of the board of medical referees shall be a specialist in a medical condition relevant to the appeal;
one member of the board of medical referees will be appointed chairman; and
where there is an equality of voting among members of the board of medical referees, the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
The board of medical referees shall appoint a time and place for hearing the appeal, at which it may interview or examine the appellant, and for any such further hearings as it may consider necessary and shall give not less than two months notice, or such shorter period as the police authority and appellant may agree, thereof to the appellant and police authority.
The police authority and the appellant shall, not less than 35 days (including weekends and public holidays) before the date appointed for the hearing, inform the board of medical referees whether they intend to be represented at the hearing.