Cap. 413 Art. 33BUNCRPD Redress Panel.

(1) There shall be a Panel within the Commission, to be referred to as the UNCRPD Redress Panel, competent to hear petitions alleging that one or more substantive Convention rights have been, are being, or are likely to be contravened, and it shall be composed of three (3) persons, including a Chairperson, being persons with disability or persons with lived experience of disability, appointed by the Commissioner, who may from time to time appoint more than one Panel.

(2) Saving as otherwise provided for in this Act, the Panel shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to matters involving any substantive Convention rights, unless the discrimination alleged in such matters is of a multiple or intersectional nature.

(3) The persons composing the Panel shall be appointed for a term of two (2) years, and during their term of office they may only be removed from office by the Commissioner on the same grounds as for the removal of a Magistrate.

(4) The Panel shall be tasked with determining any petition, submitted to it by any person with disability on their own behalf, or by any person on behalf of any other person with disability for whom, or with whom, they are authorised to exercise legal capacity.

(5) The Panel shall respect and apply the principles of good administrative behaviour laid down in article 3 of the Administrative Justice Act, and in delivering its decisions, the Panel shall be guided by the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, including the Schedules annexed thereto.

(6) There shall be such number of chambers of the Panel as the Commissioner may prescribe. The petitions shall be assigned to the various Panels on a rotation basis, by such officers as are designated by the Registry of the Panel.