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Medical Practitioners Act 1995

VIII: Discipline
Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal
100   Hearings by Tribunal



   100. Hearings by Tribunal---(1) For the purposes of any hearing by the
 Tribunal, the Tribunal shall comprise---
   (a) As presiding officer, the chairperson or (if the chairperson so
         decides) a deputy chairperson; and
   (b) The members of the panel appointed for that purpose pursuant to
         section 98 (1) (b) of this Act.

   (2) The Tribunal may from time to time, as the chairperson directs,
 sit in 2 or more divisions, and each such division---
   (a) Shall have and may exercise or perform all the powers and
         functions of the Tribunal; and
   (b) May exercise or perform any power or function of the Tribunal even
         though another division of the Tribunal is exercising or
         performing any such power or function at the same time.

   (3) Hearings of the Tribunal shall be held at such times and places as
 the Tribunal for that hearing or the presiding officer appoints.

   (4) Any hearing of the Tribunal may be adjourned from time to time and
 from place to place by the Tribunal or the presiding officer.

   (5) No hearing shall take place unless all members of the Tribunal for
 that hearing are present, but a decision of a majority of those members
 shall for the purposes of the hearing be the decision of the Tribunal.
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