(1)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.
(2)This section does not apply to any such tribunal as is specified in paragraph [F12A][F25A][F3, 5B,][F46A][F56B][F67A][F710A]17(a), 22, [F823(e)], 25(a), 29(b), 30, 35 [F937A] or 41(a) of Schedule 1 to this Act.
(3)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.
Textual Amendments
F1Words inserted by Banking Act 1987 (c. 22, SIF 10), s. 108(1), Sch. 6 para. 4(1)
F2Words inserted by Data Protection Act 1984 (c. 35, SIF 106), s. 3(6), Sch. 2 para. 13(a)
F3Words inserted (prosp.) by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), ss. 123(6), 170(1), 171(1), Sch. 8 para. 16, Sch. 15 para. 37(1)
F4Words substituted by Estate Agents Act 1979 (c. 38, SIF 124:4), s. 24(1)(a)
F5Words inserted by Financial Services Act 1986 (c. 60, SIF 69), s. 96(6), Sch. 6 para. 6(a)
F6Words repealed (E.W.S.) by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53, SIF 113:2), s. 25(4), Sch. 7
F7Words inserted (E.W.S.) by Insolvency Act 1985 (c. 65, SIF 66), s. 8, Sch. 1 para. 5(2) (but s. 8 of the 1985 Act is repealed by Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45, SIF 66), s. 438, Sch. 12)
F8Words inserted by Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27, SIF 113:1), s. 12(2)(b)
F9Words repealed (E.W.S.) by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53, SIF 113:2), s. 25(4), Sch. 7
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 8 extended (E.W.S.) by Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45, SIF 66), s. 396, Sch. 7 para. 1(2)
C2S. 8 excluded by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), s. 7(3)(b)