SCHEDULE 15 Transitional Provisions and Savings
Adjudicators and the Tribunal
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(1)
Each existing member of the Tribunal is to continue as a member of the Tribunal as if he had been duly appointed by the Lord Chancellor under Schedule 2.
(2)
Each existing adjudicator is to continue as an adjudicator as if he had been duly appointed by the Lord Chancellor under Schedule 3.
(3)
The terms and conditions for a person to whom sub-paragraph (1) or (2) applies remain those on which he held office immediately before the appropriate date.
(4)
The provisions of Schedule 7 to the M1Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (transitional provisions for retirement dates), so far as applicable in relation to an existing member or adjudicator immediately before the appropriate date, continue to have effect.
(5)
The repeal by this Act of Schedule 5 to the 1971 Act (provisions with respect to adjudicators and the Tribunal) does not affect any entitlement which an existing member or adjudicator had immediately before the appropriate date as a result of a determination made under paragraph 3(1)(b) or 9(1)(b) of that Schedule.
(6)
“The appropriate date” means—
(a)
in relation to existing members of the Tribunal, the date on which section 56 comes into force; and
(b)
in relation to existing adjudicators, the date on which section 57 comes into force.
(7)
“Existing member” means a person who is a member of the Tribunal immediately before the appropriate date.
(8)
“Existing adjudicator” means a person who is an adjudicator immediately before the appropriate date.