§ 72. Mr. Oliverasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether in cases where the Civil Service Commis.;ioners refuse to issue to a candidate their certificate of qualification for transfer to establishment on medical grounds, he will consider granting a right of appeal to an independent doctor or medical board.
§ Mr. JayNo. But if a candidate is dissatisfied with a decision and can produce a specialist medical opinion in his favour, it is the practice of the Commissioners to offer him the opportunity of appearing before a medical board of three doctors of consultant rank who have not previously examined him on the Commissioners' behalf.