Section 12: Establishment of the Disciplinary Tribunal and the Investigating Panel.

(1) There shall be established a body to be known as the Town Planners 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 and constituted under 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 three members of the Council holding office by virtue of paragraph (b) of section 1(3) of this Act or, where the number of those members is for the time being less than three, all those members.
(3) There shall be established a body to be known as the Town Planners 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 provisionally registered has committed acts of professional misconduct in his capacity as a town planner 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 and two other registered town planners who are not 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.