An administrative tribunal cannot conclusively determine its own jurisdiction, and a later-constituted tribunal is entitled to reconsider an earlier jurisdictional finding by a different member. A decision affected by jurisdictional error may be treated as having no legal effect. Where mandatory statutory preconditions for the grant of a certificate have not been met, remittal to the tribunal would be futile.
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