(1) The Presiding Officer of a Tribunal or an Appellate Tribunal may, by notice in writing under his hand I addressed to the Central Government, resign his office:
Provided thae the said Presiding Officer shall, unless he is perniitted / the Central Government to relinquish!; his office sooner, continue to aid office until the expiry of three montljis from the date of receipt of ich notice or until a person duly appointe|i as his successor enters upon is office or until the expiry of his term, of cjffiee, whichever is the earliest.
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(2) The Presiding Officer of a Tribunal or an Appellate Tribunal shall not be removed from his office except by an order made by the Central Government on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity after inquiry,—
(a) in the case of the Presiding Officer of a Tribunal, made by a Judge of a High Court;
(b)i in the case of the Presiding Officer of an Appellate Tribunal, made by a Judge of Supreme Court, in which the Presiding Officer concerned has been informed of the charges against him and given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of those charges.
(3) The Central Government may, by rules, regulate the procedure for the investigation of misbehaviour or incapacity of the aforesaid Presiding Officer.
16. No order of the Central Government appointing any person as the Presiding Officer of a Tribunal or an Appellate Tribunal shall be called in question in any manner, and no act or proceeding before a Tribunal or an Appellate Tribunal shall be called in question in any manner on the ground merely of any defect in the constitution of a Tribunal or an Appellate Tribunal.
Orders con, stituting Tribunal or an Appellate Tribunal to be final and not to invalidate its proceedings.
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