law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
  33.
  
     Composition
  
  of Appellate Board.
  1.   The Appellate Board
  
  shall consist of a Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, and such other Members as the
  
  Central Government may deem fit and, subject to the other provisions of this
  
  Act, the jurisdiction, powers and authority of the Appellate Board may be exercised
  
  by a Bench thereof.
  2.   Subject to the other
  
  provisions of this Act, a Bench shall consist of one Judicial Member and one
  
  Technical Member and shall sit at such place as the Central Government may, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, specify.
  3.   Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in sub-section (2), the Chairperson-
  a.  
  
    may,
  
  in addition to discharging the functions of the Judicial Member or Technical
  
  Member of the Bench to which he is appointed, discharge the function of the
  
  Judicial Member or, as the case may be, the Technical Member, of any other
  
  Bench;
  b.  
  
    may
  
  transfer a Member from one Bench to another Bench;
  c.  
  
    may
  
  authorise Vice-Chairperson, the Judicial Member or the Technical Member
  
  appointed to one Bench to discharge also the functions of the Judicial Member
  
  or the Technical Member, as the case may be, of another Bench.
  1.     
  2.     
  3.     
  4.   Where any Benches are
  
  constituted, the Central Government may, from time to time, by notification,
  
  make provisions as to the distribution of the business of the Appellate Board
  
  amongst the Benches and specify the matters which may be dealt by each Bench.
  Explanation.
  
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  For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the expression ''matter''
  
  includes an application or appeal under section 40 or section 42.
  5.   If the Members of a
  
  Bench differ in opinion on any point, they shall state the point or points on
  
  which they differ, and make a reference to the Chairperson who shall either
  
  hear the point or points himself or refer the case for hearing on such point or
  
  points by one or more of the other Members and such point or points shall be
  
  decided according to the opinion of the majority of the Members who have heard
  
  the case including those who first heard it.