Part 3Enforcement
Judicial officers' professional association
63Judicial officers' professional association
(1)
The Scottish Ministers, by regulations—
(a)
must designate an association as the professional association for judicial officers; and
(b)
may make provision in relation to the functions, constitution and procedures of the professional association.
(2)
The Scottish Ministers may not make regulations under subsection (1) above without first consulting—
(a)
the Commission;
(b)
representatives of the professional association or, as the case may be, proposed professional association; and
(c)
such other bodies or persons who appear to the Scottish Ministers to have an interest.
(3)
A person may not hold a commission as a judicial officer unless that person is a member of the professional association.