Chapter:	159	Title:	LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 163 of 2004
Section:	9B	Heading:	Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal	Version Date:	01/11/2004

(1) On receipt of a submission under section 8A(3) or 9A in respect of a person who is, or was at the relevant time, a solicitor, a trainee solicitor or an employee of a solicitor the Tribunal Convenor of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal Panel shall, unless it is a matter that is to be disposed of by the Tribunal Convenor under section 9AB, appoint from the Panel 2 solicitors and one lay person to constitute a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal to inquire into and investigate the matter. (Amended 60 of 1994 s. 14; 23 of 2002 s. 105)
(1A) On receipt of a submission under section 8A(3) or 9A in respect of a person who is, or was at the relevant time, a foreign lawyer or an employee of a foreign lawyer the Tribunal Convenor of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal Panel shall, unless it is a matter that is to be disposed of by the Tribunal Convenor under section 9AB, appoint from the Panel 2 solicitors, one foreign lawyer and one lay person to constitute a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal to inquire into and investigate the matter. (Added 60 of 1994 s. 14. Amended 23 of 2002 s. 105)
(2) The Tribunal members shall elect as chairman one of its members who is a solicitor.
(3) The Council may be represented at proceedings before the Tribunal.
(4) The Tribunal shall sit in camera in the places and at the times it directs.
(5) A member of the Tribunal who becomes a member of the Council may continue as a member of the Tribunal notwithstanding section 9(2).