48EAppointment of panel

48E Appointment of panel

(1) The Minister may, by instrument, appoint a panel of persons to consider submissions made under section 48D(2) on the request, and the persons appointed to the panel must be persons who have knowledge of or experience in the matters that the panel is to consider.

(2) Subject to any specifications of the Minister when appointing the panel, a panel may regulate its own proceedings.

(3) If submissions on the request have not been invited by a notice given under section 48D(1)(a), the panel must cause a notice to be published in a newspaper circulating generally in the area concerned inviting submissions on the request within the period specified in the notice.

(4) After considering all submissions referred or made to it, the panel must report its findings to the Minister within the period specified by the Minister.

(5) The panel may include in its report any recommendations that it thinks fit.

(6) A member of a panel is entitled to be paid any fees and allowances fixed by the Governor in Council.

S. 48F inserted by No. 99/2005 s. 24.