Gas Safety Ordinance

(1)
The appeal board shall conduct a hearing into the grounds for the Authority’s decision or action to which the appeal before it relates.
(2)
Where a member of the appeal board is in any way directly or indirectly interested in any
appeal—
(a)
he shall disclose the nature of his interest at a meeting of the appeal board;
(b)
the disclosure shall be recorded in the minutes of the appeal board; and
(c)
he shall not, without the permission of the chairman of the appeal board, take any part in any deliberation or determination of the appeal board in respect of that appeal.
(3)
Where the chairman of an appeal board does not permit a member of the appeal board who has made a disclosure under subsection (2) to take any part in any deliberation or determination of the appeal board in respect of the appeal to which that disclosure relates, the member shall not be counted for the purpose of forming a quorum of the appeal board at any hearing of that appeal.
(4)
For the purposes of subsection (1), the appeal board hearing an appeal shall have all the powers of the Authority in respect of the decision or action of the Authority against which the appeal is made, and shall determine the appeal by an order in
writing—
(a)
confirming or disallowing;
(b)
varying in such manner as it thinks fit; or
(c)
substituting its own decision for,
such decision or action.
(5)
The Authority shall do all such things as are necessary to give effect to an order.