Section 15: Establishment of Disciplinary Tribunal and Investigation Panel.

(1) There shall be established a tribunal to be known as the Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (in this Act referred to as "the Disciplinary 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 Disciplinary Tribunal has cognisance under the following provisions of this Act.
(2) The Disciplinary Tribunal shall consist of the chairman of the Council and ten other members of the Council appointed by the Council who shall include not less than two persons who are fully registered dental surgeons.
(3) There shall be established a body to be known as the Medical and Dental Practitioners Investigation 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 registered person has misbehaved in his capacity as a medical practitioner or dental surgeon, or should for any other reason be the subject of proceedings before the Disciplinary Tribunal;
(b) compelling any person by subpoena to give evidence before it;
(c) deciding, if satisfied that to do so is necessary for the protection of members of the public, to make an order for interim suspension from the medical or dental profession in respect of the person whose case they have decided to refer for inquiry; and for the case to be given accelerated hearing by the Disciplinary Tribunal within three months; or
(d) deciding, if satisfied that to do so is necessary for the protection of members of the public or is in his interest, to make an order for interim conditional registration in respect of that person, that is to say, an order that his registration shall be conditional on his compliance, during such period not exceeding two months as is specified, as the Panel may think fit to impose for the protection of members of the public or in his interest.
(4) The Panel shall be appointed by the Council and shall consist of fifteen members, at least three of whom shall be dental surgeons.
(5)
The provisions of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, so far as applicable to the Disciplinary Tribunal and the Panel respectively, have effect with respect to those bodies.
[Second Schedule.]