{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-payments-regulations-2020/schedule-1/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-payments-regulations-2020/schedule-1/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/103",
  "legislation_title": "The Victims' Payments Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-payments-regulations-2020",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Panels",
  "text": "(1) A panel other than an appeal panel or a review panel must be constituted to consist of—\n(a) one legal member, or\n(b) three members, including at least one legal member and one ordinary member.\n(2) A panel must be constituted in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)(b) if the panel is to make a decision or determination under regulations 5(5), 6(2) or (3), 9(4)(b), 10(4) or 20(3).\n(3) Where a panel has been constituted in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)(a), the President may appoint further members such that the panel is constituted in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)(b).\n(4) Where a panel consists of one legal member, that member is chair.\n(5) Where a panel consists of three members—\n(a) if the panel includes the President of the Board, the President is the chair of the panel;\n(b) in any other case, the President must appoint a legal member as the chair.\n(6) A determination or decision of a panel is the determination or decision of the majority of the members of the panel.\n(7) The functions of a panel consisting of one legal member may, where and to the extent the President considers it appropriate, be exercised by a member of staff provided under paragraph 7.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 12(2) substituted (25.7.2023) by The Victims’ Payments (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/742), regs. 1(1), 2(14)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 12(3) substituted (25.7.2023) by The Victims’ Payments (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/742), regs. 1(1), 2(14)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 12(3) substituted (25.7.2023) by The Victims’ Payments (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/742), regs. 1(1), 2(14)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 24.2.2020, see reg. 1(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/103/schedule/1/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:34:05.178186+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."
}