Section 12: Establishment of Disciplinary Committee and Investigating Panel

(1) There shall be a Committee to be known as the Registered Quantity Surveyors Disciplinary Committee (in this Act referred to as "the Disciplinary Committee") 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 Disciplinary Committee has cognisance under the following provisions of this Act.
(2) The Disciplinary Committee shall consist of the president of the Board and eight other members of the Board appointed by the Board, and shall include not less than four members of the Board holding office by virtue of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 2 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 Quantity Surveyors 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 person fully or temporarily registered has misbehaved in his capacity as such, or should for any other reason be the subject of proceedings before the Disciplinary Committee;
(b) deciding whether the case should be referred to the Disciplinary Committee.
(4) The Panel shall be appointed by the Board and shall consist of five members and three registered quantity surveyors who are not members of the Board.
(5)
The provisions of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, so far as applicable to the Disciplinary Committee and the Panel respectively, have effect with respect to those bodies.
[Second Schedule.]