Section 418 — Staff of Tribunal and Appellate Tribunal

(1) The Central Government shall, in consultation
with the Tribunal and the Appellate Tribunal, provide the Tribunal and the Appellate Tribunal, as the case
may be, with such officers and other employees as may be necessary for the exercise of the powers and
discharge of the functions of the Tribunal and the Appellate Tribunal.
(2) The officers and other employees of the Tribunal and the Appellate Tribunal shall discharge their
functions under the general superintendence and control of the President, or as the case may be, the
Chairperson, or any other Member to whom powers for exerc ising such superintendence and control are
delegated by him.
(3) The salaries and allowances and other conditions of service of the officers and other employees of
the Tribunal and the Appellate Tribunal shall be such as may be prescribed.
3[418A. Benches of Appellate Tribunal.—(1) The powers of the Appellate Tribunal may be exercised
by the Benches thereof to be constituted by the Chairperson:
Provided that a Bench of the Appellate Tribunal shall have at least one Judicial Member and one
Technical Member.
(2) The Benches of the Appellate Tribunal shall ordinarily sit at New Delhi or such other places as the
Central Government may, in consultation with the Chairperson, notify:
Provided that the Central Government may, by notification, after consultation with the Chairperson,
establish such number of Benches of the Appellate Tribunal, as it may consider necessary, to hear appeals
against any direction, decision or order referred to in section 53A of the Competition Act, 2002 (12 of 2003)