45. Fire Safety Engineers Inquiry Panel

There is to be a Fire Safety Engineers Inquiry Panel for the purpose of constituting Inquiry Committees under section 44 to investigate into any complaint against or information about the conduct of any fire safety engineer as a peer reviewer or otherwise, or the discharge of his or her duties as a fire safety engineer or peer reviewer.

The Fire Safety Engineers Inquiry Panel comprises —

Every member of the Fire Safety Engineers Inquiry Panel is to be appointed by the Minister for a term of 2 years, and is eligible for re‑appointment.

The Minister may at any time remove any person from the Fire Safety Engineers Inquiry Panel and fill any vacancy in its membership.

Any member of the Fire Safety Engineers Inquiry Panel whose term of appointment expires in the course of any inquiry by an Inquiry Committee to which the member has been appointed continues as a member of that Committee until the Committee’s written report of the inquiry is submitted to the Commissioner under section 44(3)(b).

Each person who, immediately before 1 September 2013, is a member of the Fire Safety Engineers Discipline Panel appointed under this section is deemed to have been appointed as a member of the Fire Safety Engineers Inquiry Panel for a term expiring on the date when the person’s term would have expired if section 24 of the Fire Safety (Amendment) Act 2013 had not been enacted.[22E