Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000

2 (1) A local probation board is to consist of a chairman, a chief officer and not less than five other members.

(2) One of the other members is to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor from among the judges of the Crown Court (being a judge of the High Court, a Circuit judge or a Recorder).

(3) The chairman, the chief officer and the other members are to be appointed by the Secretary of State.

(4) Regulations may make provision as to their appointment (including the number, or limits on the number, of members who may be appointed and any conditions to be fulfilled for appointment as a member).

(5) Regulations made by virtue of sub-paragraph (4) and coming into force on or after the coming into force of section 4 must make provision—

(a) for the selection procedure for the chairman, the chief officer and the other members of the board who are to be appointed by the Secretary of State to include selection panels,

(b) in the case of the chief officer, for the board to be represented on any selection panel making a final recommendation to the Secretary of State.

(6) Regulations must provide, so far as it is practicable to do so, for the persons appointed to be representative of the local community in the board’s area and to live or work (or to have lived or worked) in that area.

(7) Below in this Schedule, “member” includes the chairman and chief officer (where the context allows).