s.19Appointment and constitution of the Financial Assistance Appeals Tribunal
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Section 19Part 4 — THE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE APPEALS TRIBUNAL

Appointment and constitution of the Financial Assistance Appeals Tribunal

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The Cabinet shall appoint a Financial Assistance Appeals Tribunal, which shall consist of —
a chairperson, who shall be an attorney-at-law of at least five years' experience;
a deputy chairperson, who shall be a person with at least five years' experience in health and human services;
a person with at least three years' experience in finance; and
two other persons,
and notice of each appointment shall be published in the Gazette.
The chairperson, or in the chairperson's absence the deputy chairperson, shall preside over meetings of the Appeals Tribunal.
In the absence of both the chairperson and the deputy chairperson, the members present and forming a quorum shall elect one of their numbers to preside as chairperson over that meeting.
The quorum for meetings of the Appeals Tribunal is three persons.
The decisions of the Appeals Tribunal shall be by a majority of votes of members present and voting, but the chairperson or the person presiding as such shall not have an original vote, and shall only exercise a casting vote in any case in which the votes are equally divided.
For the purposes of subsection (1), a person who is employed with the Ministry shall not be eligible to be appointed as a member of the Appeals Tribunal.

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