Part 3: Infected Blood Compensation Body Section 52: Reviews and Appeals
This section provides that the regulations may make provisions setting out the compensation scheme reviews and appeals procedure, including an ability for the IBCA to review decisions taken under the scheme. It is a requirement that the scheme must include a right for applicants to appeal scheme decisions to the First-tier tribunal (FTT), but if the regulations allow the IBCA to review decisions, they may also make provision that the right to appeal to the FTT cannot be exercisable unless the IBCA have first reviewed the decision (for instance by way of an internal appeals process to be exhausted before the right to appeal arises).