law: The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001
  55. Composition of
  
  Tribunal.-
  1.  The
  
  Tribunal shall consist of a Chairman and such number of Judicial Members and
  
  Technical Members as the Central Government may deem fit to appoint.
  2.  A
  
  Judicial Member shall be a person who has for at least ten years held a
  
  judicial office in the territory of India or who has been a member of the
  
  Indian Legal Service and has held a post in Grade-II of that Service or any
  
  equivalent or higher post or at least three years or who has been an advocate
  
  for at least twelve years.
  Explanation.- For the
  
  purposes of this sub-section,-
   
  
   i.  
  
    in
  
  computing the period during which a person has held judicial office in the
  
  territory of India, there shall be included any period, after he has held any
  
  judicial office, during which the person has been an advocate or has held the
  
  office of a member of a tribunal or any post, under the Union or a State,
  
  requiring special knowledge of law;
  in
  
  computing the period during which a person has been an advocate, there shall be
  
  included any period during which the person has held judicial office or the
  
  office of a member of a tribunal or any post, under the Union or a State,
  
  requiring special knowledge of law after he became an advocate.
  1.  
  2.  
  3.  A
  
  Technical Member shall be a person who is an eminent agricultural scientist in
  
  the field of plant breeding and genetics and possesses an experience of at
  
  least twenty years to deal with plant variety or seed development activity, or
  
  who has held t e post in the Central Government or a State Government dealing
  
  with plant variety or seed development equivalent to the Joint Secretary to the
  
  Government of India for at least three years and possesses special knowledge in
  
  the field of plant breeding and genetics.
  4.    The
  
  Central Government shall appoint a Judicial Member of the Tribunal to be the
  
  Chairman thereof.
  5. The
  
  Central Government may appoint one of the Members of the Tribunal to be the
  
  senior Member thereof.
  6. 
  
    The
  
  senior member or a Member shall exercise such of the powers and perform such of
  
  the functions of the Chairman as may be delegated to him by the Chairman by a
  
  general or special order in writing.