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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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