Part 2: The Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) Immunity from prosecution Section 22: The immunity requests panel
This section makes provision relating to the immunity requests panel, which has the function of determining requests for immunity from prosecution. Subsection (1) deals with the composition of the panel, which must consist of the Chief Commissioner and two ICRIR officers nominated by the Chief Commissioner. Under subsection (2), the chair of the panel is to be the Chief Commissioner.
	Under subsection (3), the Chief Commissioner has powers to remove an ICRIR officer panel member, and, in relation to ICRIR officer panel members who are not removed but who are unable to act, nominate a different ICRIR officer as a temporary replacement.
	Under subsection (5), only ICRIR officers with appropriate legal qualifications and experience may be appointed to the panel (The Chief Commissioner will themselves be a current or former holder of high judicial office under Schedule 1). To ensure the ICRIR includes officers with the appropriate qualifications and experience, subsection (6) places a duty on the body to ensure it employees or seconds as officers at least two persons who meet these requirements. Subsection (7) provides that functions conferred on the immunity requests panel are to be treated as functions of the ICRIR, exercisable by the immunity requests panel on behalf of, and in the name of, the body.