Section 15: Establishment of Disciplinary Tribunal and Investigating Panel

(1) There shall be a tribunal, to be known as the Registered Engineers Disciplinary Tribunal (hereafter in this Act referred to as "the Tribunal"), which shall be charged with the duty of considering and determining any case referred to it by the Panel established by the following provisions of this section and any other case of which the Tribunal has cognisance under the following provisions of this Act.
(2) The Tribunal shall consist of the president of the Council and eleven other members of the Council appointed by the Council, and shall include not less than four members of the Council holding office by virtue of paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section 1 of this Act or, where the number of those members is for the time being less than four, all those members.
(3) There shall be a body to be known as the Registered Engineers Investigating Panel (hereafter in this Act referred to as "the Panel"), which shall be charged with the duty of-
(a) conducting a preliminary investigation into any case where it is alleged that a person fully or provisionally registered has misbehaved in his capacity as such, or should for any other reason be the subject of proceedings before the Tribunal; and
(b) deciding whether the case should be referred to the Tribunal.
(4) The Panel shall be appointed by the Council and shall consist of seven members of the Council.
(5) The provisions of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, so far as applicable to the Tribunal and the Panel respectively, have effect with respect to those bodies.
[Second Schedule.]