Section 11: Establishment of Disciplinary Tribunal and Investigating Panel

(1) There shall be established a body to be known as the Chartered Chemists Disciplinary Tribunal (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 under subsection (3) 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 six other members of the Council appointed by the Council.
(3) There shall be a body, to be known as the Chartered Chemists Investigating Panel (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 member of the profession has misbehaved in his capacity as such a member or should for any other reason be the subject of proceedings before the Tribunal;
(b) deciding whether the case should be referred to the Tribunal; and
(c)
submitting a report on any action taken in the past to the Tribunal.
(4) The Panel shall be appointed by the Council and shall consist of two members of the Council and one member of the profession who is not a member of the Council.
(5) The provisions of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, so far as they are applicable to the Tribunal and Panel respectively, have effect with respect to those bodies.
(6) The Council may make rules not inconsistent with this Act as to acts which constitute professional misconduct.