Paragraph 3
No person shall be appointed as an Appeal Officer unless the Secretary of State considers that that person has sufficient knowledge and experience, or sufficiently ready access to independent sources of technical or legal expertise, to be able to reach independent, impartial and properly informed decisions on the appeals which that person is appointed to hear.
Notes on Schedule 4
Textual amendments
- F1
Word in Sch. 4 heading substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 12 para. 33(a) (with Sch. 12 para. 22) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)