Composition and procedure of tribunals and inquiries
C28 Concurrence required for removal of members of certain tribunals. C1
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Subject to subsection (2) of this section, no power of a Minister other than the Lord Chancellor to terminate a persons’s membership of any such tribunal as is specified in Schedule 1 to this Act, or of a panel constituted for the purposes of any such tribunal, shall be exercisable except 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.
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For the purposes of this section in its application to any such tribunal as is specified in paragraph 8(a) of Schedule 1 to this Act, an adjudicator who has sat only in England or Wales or 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 or which sits only in Scotland or which sits only in Northern Ireland, as the case may be.