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60President of Welsh TribunalsU.K.

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(1)The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales may appoint a person to the office of President of Welsh Tribunals or Llywydd Tribiwnlysoedd Cymru.

(2)The President of Welsh Tribunals is not a devolved Welsh authority for the purposes of the Government of Wales Act 2006.

(3)Schedule 5 makes further provision about the President of Welsh Tribunals and about appointments under subsection (1).

(4)A holder of the office of President of Welsh Tribunals must, in carrying out the functions of that office, have regard to—

(a)the need for the Welsh tribunals to be accessible;

(b)the need for proceedings before those tribunals—

(i)to be fair, and

(ii)to be handled quickly and efficiently;

(c)the need for members of those tribunals to be experts in the subject-matter of, or the law to be applied in, cases in which they decide matters;

(d)the need to develop innovative methods of resolving disputes that are of a type that may be brought before those tribunals.

(5)The President of Welsh Tribunals is responsible—

(a)for the maintenance of appropriate arrangements for the training, guidance and welfare of members of the Welsh tribunals within the resources made available by the Welsh Ministers;

(b)for representing the views of members of the Welsh tribunals to the Welsh Ministers and to other members of the National Assembly for Wales.

Commencement Information

I1S. 60 in force at 10.7.2017 or the first day on which regulations made under 2017 c. 4, Sch. 5 para. 7(1) come into force, whichever is the later by S.I. 2017/351, reg. 2

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