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Version date: 23 October 2024 - onwards

218. Regulations (Chapter 7)

The Minister shall, in a manner ensuring the independence of adjudication officers in the performance of their functions, make regulations providing for -

(a) the experience, qualifications, training or expertise persons shall possess to be appointed as adjudication officers,

(b) the term of appointment of adjudication officers, which term shall be specified in writing on appointment, and the term of appointment may be -

(i) fixed and non-renewable, or

(ii) subject to paragraph (c), fixed and renewable,

(c) where a term of appointment is renewable in accordance with paragraph (b)(ii), objective, independently assessed competence-based criteria for such renewal,

(d) the remuneration and allowance for expenses to be paid, which may not be reduced during the term of the appointment save in accordance with law, to an adjudication officer and, having regard to his or her different functions, to the chief adjudication officer,

(e) the manner in which an adjudication officer may resign from office, and

(f) subject to section 216(4), (6) and (7), procedures for the revocation of appointment of adjudication officers.