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  • Lord Chief Justice

  • Lord Justice of Appeal

  • Judge of the High Court

  • Temporary judge of the High Court under section 7(3) of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23)

  • County court judge

  • Deputy county court judge

  • Resident magistrate

  • Deputy resident magistrate

  • Coroner

  • Deputy coroner

  • Statutory officer (within the meaning of section 70(1) of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978)

  • Deputy for a statutory officer under section 74 of that Act

  • Temporary additional statutory officer under that section

  • Chief Social Security Commissioner for Northern Ireland

  • Social Security Commissioner for Northern Ireland

  • Deputy Social Security Commissioner for Northern Ireland

  • Chief Child Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland

  • Child Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland

  • Deputy Child Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland

  • President of appeal tribunals (within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)))

  • Member of the panel of persons to act as members of such appeal tribunals

  • Member of the legal panel of persons available to act as chairmen of Social Care Tribunals in Northern Ireland

  • [F1 Chairman of an Appeal Tribunal for the purposes of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/2203 (N.I. 22))]

  • President of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal

  • Acting President of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal under Article 82(6) of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/3162 (N.I. 12))

  • Vice-President of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal

  • Acting Vice-President of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal under Article 82(6) of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

  • [F2 Member of the panel of chairmen of the Industrial Tribunals]

  • Member of the panel of chairmen of the Fair Employment Tribunal

  • President of the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland

  • Deputy President of the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland under section 3(1) of the Lands Tribunal and Compensation Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 (c. 29 (N.I.))

  • Other member of the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland

  • Temporary member of the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland under section 3(2) of the Lands Tribunal and Compensation Act (Northern Ireland) 1964

  • President of the Special Educational Needs Tribunal [F3and Disability] for Northern Ireland

  • Member of the panel of persons who may serve as chairman of that Tribunal

  • Member of the tribunal established under section 91 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47)

  • Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Northern Ireland

  • Lay magistrate

  • Justice of the Peace

  • F4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • [F5 Member of the panel of persons who may serve as chairmen of a tribunal established for the purposes of the Deregulation (Model Appeal Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 (S.R. 1997/269).

  • Chairman of a Tribunal appointed under paragraph 1(1)(a) of Schedule 3 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in its application to Northern Ireland

  • Member of a Tribunal appointed under paragraph 2(1) of the Schedule to the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 in its application to Northern Ireland

  • President or Deputy President of Pensions Appeal Tribunals appointed under paragraph 2B of the Schedule to the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 in its application to Northern Ireland

  • Chairman of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal for the purpose of proceedings brought before it in Northern Ireland

  • [F6Deputy appointed under paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 3 to the Plant Varieties Act 1997 for the purpose of proceedings brought before the Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal in Northern Ireland]

  • Member of the panel of persons to act as chairmen of Reinstatement Committees sitting in Northern Ireland (appointed under paragraph 2(1)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 1985)

  • F7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • F8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • F8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]

  • [F9President of the Northern Ireland Valuation Tribunal

  • Member of the Northern Ireland Valuation Tribunal]

  • [F10President or other member of the Charity Tribunal for Northern Ireland

  • Adjudicator appointed under Article 7(1)(b) of the Criminal Injuries Compensation (Northern Ireland) Order 2002

  • Chairman appointed under Article 7(2)(b) of the Criminal Injuries Compensation (Northern Ireland) Order 2002

  • Adjudicator appointed under Article 29 of the Traffic Management (Northern Ireland) Order 2005]

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 6: entry inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15, 148, {Sch. 5, para. 126(2)}; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 12

F4Words in Sch. 6 repealed (1.4.2005) by 2002 c. 26, ss. 86, 87, Sch. 13; S.R. 2005/109, art. 2, Sch.

F5Sch. 6: entries inserted (3.4.2006 except in regard to the office of General Commissioner for a division in Northern Ireland) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15, 148, Sch. 5 para. 126(5); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 12

F10Words in Sch. 6 inserted (26.9.2009 for specified purposes, 12.4.2010 in so far as not already in force) by Northern Ireland Act 2009 (c. 3), s. 5(7), Sch. 4 para. 35(3) (with Sch. 5 para. 16); S.I. 2009/2466, art. 2(b); S.I. 2010/812, art. 2

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