Entitlement And Assessment Tribunals

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asked the Attorney-General, respecting the Pensions Appeal Tribunals, if he will give the names and state the qualifications of the 12 entitlement and the 18 assessment tribunals?

The qualifications of entitlement tribunals are set out in the Schedule to the War Pen- sions (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1919:

(1) Chairman—A barrister or solicitor of not less than seven years' standing;

(2) A disabled officer who has retired or been demobilised from His Majesty's forces during the present War whilst suffering impairment, or a disabled man who has similarly been discharged or demobilised; and

(3) A duly qualified medical practitioner.

The War Pensions Act, 1921, Section 4, Sub-section 3, proviso B, provides that for assessment tribunals

" the constitution of the tribunals shall be modified by the substitution for the legal representative of a second medical practitioner having such qualifications as may be prescribed by Regulations made under the Schedule to the Act of 1919,"

and the rules made under the Schedule provide

"that the medical member to be substituted for the legal representative under Subsection 3, proviso B of the War Pensions Act, 1921, shall be a duly qualified medical practitioner of not less than ten years' standing."

Volume 162: debated on Wednesday 28 March 1923