Section 13: Establishment of disciplinary tribunal and investigating panel.

(1) There shall be a tribunal to be known as the Public Relations Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (hereafter 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 investigating panel established by 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 six other members of the Council appointed by the Council.
(3) There shall be a body to be known as the Public Relations Practitioners Investigating Panel (hereafter in this Act referred to as "the investigating panel") which shall be charged with the duty of-
(a) conducting a preliminary investigation into any case where It is alleged that a member has misbehaved in his capacity as a public relations practitioner or should for any other reason be the subject of proceedings before the disciplinary tribunal ; and
(b) deciding whether the case should be referred to the disciplinary tribunal.
(4) The investigating panel shall be appointed by the Council and shall consist of four members of the Council and one public relations practitioner who is not a member of the Council.
(5) The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall, so far as applicable to the disciplinary tribunal and investigating 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.