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Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989

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3The President and Vice-President

(1)There shall be—

(a)a President of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal (in this Part of this Act referred to as “the President”),

(b)a Vice-President of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal (in this Part of this Act referred to as “the Vice-President”), and

(c)a panel of chairmen of the Fair Employment Tribunal,

who shall each be appointed by the Lord Chancellor and shall exercise the functions respectively conferred on them by or under the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Acts or any other enactment.

(2)A person is not qualified for appointment under subsection (1) above unless he is a barrister or solicitor of not less than seven years' standing.

(3)The President and Vice-President may each resign his office at any time by notice in writing to the Lord Chancellor and shall each vacate his office at the end of the completed year of service in which he attains the age of seventy-two.

(4)If, in the opinion of the Lord Chancellor, the President or Vice-President is unfit to continue in office or is incapable of performing his duties, the Lord Chancellor may revoke his appointment.

(5)A person appointed under subsection (1)(c) above to a panel of chairmen shall hold and vacate office as provided by or under regulations under section 2(1) of this Act.

(6)The functions of the President or Vice-President may, if he is for any reason unable to act or during a vacancy in his office, be discharged by a person nominated for that purpose by the Lord Chancellor.

(7)Regulations under section 2(1) of this Act may provide for specified functions of the President and Vice-President (including functions under sections 6 and 17 of this Act) to be exercised in specified circumstances by a person appointed, under subsection (1)(c) above, to a panel of chairmen.

(8)Until the first appointment under subsection (1)(a) above takes effect, the President of the Industrial Tribunals shall be the President.

(9)For Article 30(2)(a) of the [S.I.1984/1159 (N.I.9).] Industrial Training (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 (remuneration of the President of the Industrial Tribunals) there is substituted—

“(a)the President and Vice-President of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal;”.

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