The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire) Amalgamation Order 1999

Selection of transferee committee

5.—(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after the first appointed day, and in any event not later than the second appointed day, the selection panel shall select the first members of the transferee committee, who shall take office on the second appointed day.

(2) The selection panel shall select twelve persons to be the first members of the transferee committee, consisting of

(a) four members to hold office until 31st March 2002;

(b) four members to hold office until 31st March 2003;

(c) four members to hold office until 31st March 2004.

(3) Provided that sufficient suitable candidates present themselves, the selection panel shall, in selecting members of the transferee committee for the year following the amalgamation date, ensure that the transferee committee includes at least five representatives of each of the transferor committees; and in this sub-paragraph a representative of a transferor committee means a person who was a member of that committee on the day preceding the first appointed day.

(4) Subject to paragraph 4 above and to the preceding sub-paragraphs of this paragraph, the Constitution Regulations shall apply to the transferee committee except that–

(a) regulations 2(2), 2(3), 3, 6(3)(a), 14(3) and 14(4) and Schedules 2 and 3 shall not apply;

(b) paragraphs (2), (3) and (7) of regulation 6 shall not apply in relation to the selection of the first members of the transferee committee;

(c) regulation 7 shall apply to the selection of the first members of the transferee committee as if for the reference to 31st December there were substituted a reference to the day before the first appointed day;

(d) any period served on a transferor committee or the transferee committee, or as chairman of any such committee, prior to the amalgamation date shall not count towards the maximum periods of service permitted by regulations 8 and 10;

(e) regulations 15 and 16 shall not apply before the amalgamation date;

(f) references in any regulation to any other regulation shall be read as references to that other regulation as modified by paragraphs (a) to (e) above.