Administrative Appeals Tribunal

(1) The Administrative Appeals Tribunal established under paragraph (1) of Article 59 of the Constitution, (hereinafter referred to as the “Tribunal”) shall consist of three members appointed by the Judicial Service Commission, from among persons who have had over twenty years of experience as a public officer or ten years of experience in the legal profession, one of whom shall be appointed it’s Chairman.

(2) The terms of office of the members of the Tribunal, including it’s Chairman, shall be three years.

(a) the Public Service Commision in the exercise of its powers under Chapter IX of the Constitution;

(b) the National Police Commission in the exercise of its powers under Chapter XVIIIA of the Constitution

(1) Any public officer or police officer as the case may be, aggrieved by an order or decision made by the Public Service Commission or the National Police Commission, as the case may be, may prefer an appeal in writing to the Tribunal within four weeks from the date of receipt of such order or decision.

(2) An appeal preferred to the Tribunal under subsection (1), shall set out concisely and precisely the grounds on which the aggrieved public officer or police officer, as the case may be. seeks to have the order or decision against which such appeal is being preferred altered, varied or rescinded and shall be signed by such officer.

(1) Upon receipt of an appeal under section 4, the Tribunal shall notify the Public Service Commission or the National Police Commission, as the case may be, of such fact, and shall forthwith forward a copy of such appeal to the appropriate Commission.

(2) The Public Service Commission or the National Police Commission, as the case may be, shall thereupon have the power to place before the Tribunal for its consideration objections, if any to or against such appeal.

(a) entertain such appeal :

(b) call for a report from the Public Service Commission or the National Police Commission, as the case may be;

(c) require the Public Service Commission or the National Police Commission, as the case may be, to produce any document or other material which in the opinion of the Tribunal relates to the grounds set out in the appeal;

(d) notify any other public officer or police officer, as the case may be, of the same category whom the Tribunal considers likely to have been affected by the order or decision of the Public Service Commission, or the National Police Commission, and require such officer to produce before the Tribunal any material such officer may wish to place before the Tribunal in connection with such appeal, within a period of two weeks from the dale of receipt by him, of such notice.

(1) The decision of the Tribunal shall be under the hand of the Chairman and shall be communicated in writing to the Public Service Commission or to the National Police Commission, as the case may be, to the public officer or the police officer who preferred the appeal and to any other public officer or police officer who was notified by the Tribunal under paragraph (d) of section 6. The decision of the Tribunal shall, be the decision of the majority.

(2) A decision made by the Tribunal shall be final and conclusive and shall not be called in question in any suit or proceedings in a court of law.

(1) The Chairman of the Tribunal may, in consultation with the Judicial Service Commission, appoint such officers and servants as may be necessary for the exercise of the powers of the Tribunal

(2) The removal and exercise of disciplinary control over the officers and servants appointed under subsection (1), shall be vested with the Judicial Service Commission.