7 Concurrence required for removal of members of certain tribunals.U.K.
(1)Subject to subsection (2), the power of a Minister, other than the Lord Chancellor, to terminate a person’s membership of any tribunal specified in Schedule 1, or of a panel constituted for the purposes of any such tribunal, shall be exercisable only with the consent of—
(a)the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Court of Session and the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, if the tribunal sits in all parts of the United Kingdom;
(b)the Lord Chancellor and the Lord President of the Court of Session, if the tribunal sits in all parts of Great Britain;
(c)the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, if the tribunal sits both in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland;
(d)the Lord Chancellor, if the tribunal does not sit outside England and Wales;
(e)the Lord President of the Court of Session, if the tribunal sits only in Scotland;
(f)the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, if the tribunal sits only in Northern Ireland.
(2)This section does not apply to any tribunal specified in paragraph 3, 4, 12, 14, 17, 18, 26, 33(a), [33A,] 34, 35(d) or (e), 36(a), 39(b), 40, 43, 48 or 56(a) of Schedule 1.
(3)For the purposes of this section in its application to any tribunal specified in paragraph 22(a) of Schedule 1, an adjudicator who has sat only in England and Wales, who has sat only in Scotland or who has sat only in Northern Ireland shall be deemed to constitute a tribunal which does not sit outside England and Wales, which sits only in Scotland or which sits only in Northern Ireland, as the case may be.