SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 The offices which may be qualifying judicial offices

Section 1.

Part I Judges

  • Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

  • Lord Chief Justice of England

  • Master of the Rolls

  • Lord President of the Court of Session

  • Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland

  • Lord Justice Clerk

  • Lord Justice of Appeal (in England and Wales or Northern Ireland)

  • President of the Family Division

  • Vice-Chancellor

  • High Court Judge (in England and Wales or Northern Ireland)

  • Judge of the Court of Session

  • F1Recorder of London

  • Common Serjeant

  • Circuit judge

  • Sheriff Principal or sheriff in Scotland

  • County Court Judge in Northern Ireland

  • Stipendiary Magistrate in England and Wales

  • Resident Magistrate appointed under the M1Magistrates’ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964

Part II Other appointments

Court officers

  • Master, Queen’s Bench Division

  • Queen’s Coroner and Attorney and Master of the Crown Office and Registrar of Criminal Appeals

  • Admiralty Registrar

  • Master, Chancery Division

  • Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court

  • Taxing Master of the Supreme Court

  • District Judge of the Principal Registry of the Family Division

  • Registrar of civil appeals

  • Master of the Court of Protection

  • District judge

  • Any of the offices from time to time specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 to the M2Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978, other than—

  • (a) Principal Secretary to the Lord Chief Justice;

  • (b) Legal Secretary to the Lord Chief Justice; and

  • (c) Official Solicitor

Members of tribunals

  • Chief or other Social Security Commissioner, excluding appointments in pursuance of section 52(2) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992

  • Chief or other Social Security Commissioner for Northern Ireland, excluding appointments in pursuance of section 50(2) of the M3Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992

  • Chief or other Child Support Commissioner, excluding appointments in pursuance of paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to the M4Child Support Act 1991

  • Chief or other Child Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland, excluding appointments in pursuance of paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to the Child M5 Support Act 1991 as that paragraph has effect by virtue of paragraph 8 of that Schedule

  • F2President of appeal tribunals (within the meaning of Chapter I of Part I of the Social Security Act 1998), appointed under section 5 of that Act

  • President of social security appeal tribunals, medical appeal tribunals, disability appeal tribunals and child support appeal tribunals for Northern Ireland

  • Chairman of social security appeal tribunals, medical appeal tribunals and disability appeal tribunals

  • Chairman of social security appeal tribunals, medical appeal tribunals and disability appeal tribunals in Northern Ireland

  • F3. . .

  • F4. . .

  • President of the F5Employment Tribunals (England and Wales)

  • President of the F5Employment Tribunals (Scotland)

  • President or Vice-President of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal, appointed under F6Article 82 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

  • Chairman of F5employment tribunals appointed in pursuance of regulations under F7section 1(1) of the F8Employment Tribunals Act 1996

  • Chairman of industrial tribunals or of the Fair Employment Tribunal appointed in pursuance of regulations under F9Article 3 of the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996or appointed under F10Article 82(1)(c) of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

  • President or other member of the Lands Tribunal, the Lands Tribunal for Scotland or the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland

Other offices whose holders are appointed by the Lord Chancellor

  • Judge Advocate General

  • Vice Judge Advocate General

  • Assistant Judge Advocate General

  • Deputy Judge Advocate

  • Judge Advocate of Her Majesty’s Fleet

  • President or Vice-President of Value Added Tax Tribunals

  • Chairman of value added tax tribunals

  • Commissioner for the special purposes of the Income Tax Acts appointed under section 4 of the M6Taxes Management Act 1970

  • President or other member of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal

  • President of the pensions appeal tribunals established under the M7Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943

  • President or chairman of the Transport Tribunal

  • Chief, or any other, immigration adjudicator under the M8Immigration Act 1971

  • F11Member of a panel constituted under section 6(1) of the Social Security Act 1998 F12 who–

  • (a) is appointed to serve full-time as a member of that panel; and

  • (b)either–

  • (i)has a general qualification (construed in accordance with section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 F13); or

  • (ii) is an advocate or solicitor in Scotland

  • Member of a panel constituted under Article 7(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 F14 who–

  • (a) is appointed to serve full-time as a member of that panel; and

  • (b) is a barrister or solicitor

Other offices

  • Chairman of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board incorporated under section 108(1) of the M9Criminal Justice Act 1988

  • Chairman of the Foreign Compensation Commission

  • Chairman of the Scottish Land Court

  • President of the Industrial Court appointed in pursuance of Article 91 of the M10Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992