Section 17.
1If—
(a)no date has been appointed before the commencement of this Act as the date on which paragraph 37 of Schedule 15 to the Criminal Justice Act 1988 is to come into force, or
(b)a date has been appointed which is later than the commencement of this Act,
paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 and the word “12” in section 7(2) shall be omitted until the appointed day.
2If—
(a)no date has been appointed before the commencement of this Act as the date on which paragraph 2 of Schedule 18 to the [1990 c. 41.] Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 is to come into force, or
(b)a date has been appointed which is later than the commencement of this Act,
paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 shall be omitted until the appointed day.
3If—
(a)no date has been appointed before the commencement of this Act as the date on which paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the [1991 c. 48.] Child Support Act 1991 is to come into force, or
(b)a date has been appointed which is later than the commencement of this Act,
paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 and the word “7” in section 6(3) shall be omitted until the appointed day.
4In paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 “the appointed day” means
(a)in the case mentioned in paragraph 1(a), 2(a) or 3(a), such day as may be appointed by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the paragraph concerned by order made by statutory instrument, and
(b)in the case mentioned in paragraph 1(b), 2(b) or 3(b), the day appointed as the day on which the provision mentioned in paragraph 1(a), 2(a) or 3(a) (as the case may be) is to come into force.
5(1)Any person appointed by the appropriate authority before 1st January 1959 to be chairman of any tribunal to which section 6(1) applies shall as from that day and during the continuance of his appointment be deemed to be, and to have been, a member of a panel constituted by the Lord Chancellor for the purposes of that tribunal and to have been selected by the appropriate authority to be chairman of the tribunal.
(2)Any person appointed by the appropriate authority before 1st January 1959 to be a member of a panel from which apart from this Act the chairman of the tribunal would fall to be selected shall from that day and during the continuance of his appointment be deemed to be, and to have been, a member of a panel constituted by the Lord Chancellor for the purposes of that tribunal.
(3)Any power to terminate such an appointment as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) or (2) shall be exercisable by, and only by, the Lord Chancellor.
(4)Subsections (6), (8) and (9) of section 6 shall have effect in relation to this paragraph as they have effect in relation to that section.