PART 4More about membership etc.
Training, conditions and conduct
35Conditions of membership etc.
1
Schedule 7 contains provision for the terms and conditions on which ordinary and legal members of the Scottish Tribunals hold their positions.
2
The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision enabling a relevant appointment or transfer to be made or have effect in such terms as to cause a person to hold permanently the type of membership or (as the case may be) particular position in question.
3
The Scottish Ministers must consult the President of Tribunals before—
a
making regulations under subsection (2), or
b
exercising in relation to a relevant appointment or transfer the discretion allowed by such regulations.
4
The operation of paragraphs 2 to 8 of schedule 7 is subject to provision made by regulations under subsection (2).
5
For the purposes of subsection (2)—
a
a relevant appointment is appointment or reappointment by the Scottish Ministers—
i
of a person as an ordinary or legal member of the Scottish Tribunals,
ii
of a legal member of the First-tier Tribunal as a Chamber President or Deputy Chamber President in the Tribunal, or
iii
of a legal member of the Upper Tribunal as a Vice-President of the Tribunal,
b
a relevant transfer is transfer-in to the Scottish Tribunals—
i
of a person as an ordinary or legal member of the Tribunals by virtue of section 29(b), or
ii
of a person to a particular position within the Tribunals by virtue of section 29(a).