{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999/regulation-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999/regulation-36.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/991",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/36",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Composition of appeal tribunals",
  "text": "( 1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, an appeal tribunal ... shall consist of a legally qualified panel member.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) to (5) and (8), an appeal tribunal shall consist of a legally qualified panel member and—\n(a) a medically qualified panel member where—\n(i) the issue, or one of the issues, raised on the appeal is whether the personal capability assessment is satisfied; or\n(ii) the appeal is made under section 11(1)(b) of the 1997 Act; or\n(iii) the appeal is made under section 157(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003; or\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Where the composition of an appeal tribunal is prescribed under paragraph (1), (2)(a) or (3), the President may determine that the appeal tribunal shall include such an additional member drawn from the panel constituted under section 6 as he considers appropriate for the purposes of providing further experience for that additional member or for assisting the President in the monitoring of standards of decision making by panel members.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) A person shall not act as a medically qualified panel member of an appeal tribunal in any appeal if he has at any time advised or prepared a report upon any person whose medical condition is relevant to the issue in the appeal, or has at any time regularly attended such a person.\n( 9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 35-38 omitted (3.11.2008) by virtue of Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683) , art. 1 , Sch. 1 para. 124 (with arts. 3(2)(b) , 4 )"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 36(1) omitted (19.6.2000) by The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/1596), reg. 1(1), 24(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 36(2) substituted (1.6.1999) by The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/1466), reg. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 36(2) substituted (19.6.2000) by The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/1596), reg. 1(1), 24(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 36(2) substituted (21.12.2004) by Social Security, Child Support and Tax Credits (Decisions and Appeals) Amendment Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3368) , regs. 1 , 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 36(2)(a)(i) substituted (19.6.2000) by The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/1596), reg. 1(1), 24(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 36(2)(a)(iii) inserted (1.4.2007) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and standards) Act 2003 Supplementary Provisions (Recovery of NHS Charges) (Scotland) Order 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/223) , arts. 1(1) , 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 36(2)(a)(iii) inserted (13.4.2007) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Consequential Provisions (Recovery of NHS Charges) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/917) , arts. 1(1) , 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 36(5) substituted (1.6.1999) by The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/1466), reg. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 36(5) substituted (21.12.2004) by Social Security, Child Support and Tax Credits (Decisions and Appeals) Amendment Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3368) , regs. 1 , 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 36(8)(9) inserted (19.6.2000) by The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/1596), reg. 1(1), 24(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Reg. 36(9) omitted (21.12.2004) by virtue of Social Security, Child Support and Tax Credits (Decisions and Appeals) Amendment Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3368) , regs. 1 , 2(4)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 36 applied (mods) (29.1.2007) by Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Reviews and Appeals) and Road Traffic (NHS Charges) (Reviews and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/3398) , regs. 1(1) , 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reg. 36(1)(5) applied (with modifications) (29.1.2007) by Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Reviews and Appeals) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/593) , regs. 1(1) , 8 (with reg. 8(4) )"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/991/regulation/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:23.255868+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."
}