50 Law CommissionN.I.
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(1)There is to be a body corporate known as the Northern Ireland Law Commission.
(2)The Commission is to consist of—
(a)a chairman, and
(b)four other Commissioners,
appointed by the [Department of Justice].
(3)The chairman is to be a person who holds the office of judge of the High Court.
(4)Of the other Commissioners—
(a)one is to be a person appearing to the [Department of Justice] to be suitably qualified to be a Commissioner by experience as a barrister,
(b)one is to be a person appearing to the [Department of Justice] to be suitably qualified to be a Commissioner by experience as a solicitor,
(c)one is to be a person appearing to the [Department of Justice] to be suitably qualified to be a Commissioner by experience as a teacher of law in a university, and
(d)the other is to be a person who does not hold (and has never held) judicial office and is not (and has never been) a barrister, solicitor or teacher of law in a university.
(5)Before appointing a person to be a Commissioner the [Department of Justice] must consult—
(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b)the First Minister and deputy First Minister, and
(c)the Attorney General for Northern Ireland.
(6)In appointing persons to be Commissioners, the [Department of Justice] must so far as possible secure that the Commissioners (taken together) are representative of the community in Northern Ireland.
(7)Schedule 9 makes further provision about the Commission.