Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

Appointment of assessors.

[1993 s255]

309.—(1) The Chief Appeals Officer may appoint any person whom he or she considers suitable to sit as an assessor with an appeals officer when any question, which appears to the Chief Appeals Officer to require the assistance of assessors, is heard.

(2) The Chief Appeals Officer may constitute, on the basis of districts or otherwise as he or she considers appropriate, panels of persons to sit as assessors with appeals officers and members may be selected in the manner that he or she may determine from those panels to so sit when any question, which in the opinion of the Chief Appeals Officer is appropriate for the assistance of assessors, is heard.