Gambling Regulation Act 2024
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Appeals Panel | ||
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224. (1) Subject to sections 59 and 60 , the Minister shall, as soon as practicable after the establishment day, establish an Appeals Panel and shall appoint at least 5 persons, other than members, or members of staff, of the Authority, to be members of the Panel. | ||
(2) The Minister shall appoint one person under subsection (1) who is a practising barrister or practising solicitor to be the chairperson of the Appeals Panel. | ||
(3) In making appointments under subsection (1), the Minister shall have regard to the desirability— | ||
(a) that the members of the Appeals Panel possess knowledge of, and experience, qualifications, training or expertise in, matters specified in subsection (4), and | ||
(b) of having at least 2 men and 2 women on the Panel. | ||
(4) The matters referred to in subsection (3)(a) are matters connected with— | ||
(a) legal or compliance functions in a regulated profession or industry, | ||
(b) gambling activities, | ||
(c) consumer affairs, | ||
(d) the pathology and treatment of addiction, with particular reference to gambling addiction, | ||
(e) information and communications technology, and | ||
(f) financial services, including audit and financial forensic services. | ||
(5) A member of the Appeals Panel shall hold office for such period, not exceeding 4 years from the date of his or her appointment, as the Minister determines. | ||
(6) A member of the Appeals Panel whose term of membership of the Appeals Panel expires shall be eligible for reappointment by the Minister as a member of the Panel but shall not hold office for periods the aggregate of which exceeds 8 years. | ||
(7) A member of the Appeals Panel shall be paid such remuneration, fees or allowances for expenses (if any) as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, determines. | ||
(8) A member of the Appeals Panel may resign from office by notice in writing addressed to the Minister and the resignation takes effect on the date the Minister receives the notice, or, if a date is specified in the notice and the Minister agrees to the date, on that date. | ||
(9) Where a member of the Appeals Panel dies, resigns, is removed from office or otherwise ceases to hold office in accordance with Part 3, the Minister may appoint a person to be a member of the Appeals Panel to fill the casual vacancy so occasioned. | ||
(10) A person appointed to be a member of the Appeals Panel pursuant to subsection (9)— | ||
(a) holds office for so much of the term of office of the member who occasioned the casual vacancy concerned as remains unexpired at the date of the appointment, and | ||
(b) is eligible for reappointment as a member of the Panel on the expiry of that period. | ||
(11) The Minister shall furnish such support of an administrative nature to the Appeals Panel as the Minister in his or her opinion determines is necessary to enable the Panel, an appeals officer or an Appeals Board to perform their functions. | ||
(12) The Appeals Panel shall be independent in the performance of its functions. |