2(1)A person shall be disqualified for being a member of the Commission so long as he is—U.K.
(a)a governor or employee of the BBC;
(b)a member or employee of the Corporation; [F1or
(c)a member or employee of the Broadcasting Standards Commission.]
(2)The members of the Commission shall not at any time include more than one person who is either a member or an employee of the Welsh Authority.
(3)Three out of the members of the Commission other than the chairman and deputy chairman shall be persons who appear to the Secretary of State to be suited to make the interests of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively, their special care.
(4)Before appointing a person to be a member of the Commission, the Secretary of State shall satisfy himself that that person will have no such financial or other interest as is likely to affect prejudicially the discharge by him of his functions as a member of the Commission; and the Secretary of State shall also satisfy himself from time to time with respect to every member of the Commission that he has no such interest.
(5)Any person who is, or whom the Secretary of State proposes to appoint to be, a member of the Commission shall, whenever requested by the Secretary of State to do so, furnish him with such information as the Secretary of State considers necessary for the performance by him of his duties under sub-paragraph (4).
Textual Amendments
F1Word “or”and Sch. 1 para. 2(c) substituted for paragraphs (c) and (d) (1.4.1997) by 1996 c. 55, s. 148(1), Sch. 10 Pt. II, para. 22 (with s. 43(1)(6)); S.I. 1997/1005, art. 4