SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 8Supreme Court selection commissions
Part 1Membership
6Non-judicial members of selection commissions
1
This paragraph applies in relation to those persons who are to be members of a selection commission by virtue of paragraph 1(1)(c).
2
The Lord Chancellor must nominate one member of each Commission or Board referred to in that provision to be a member of the selection commission.
3
At least one of the persons nominated under sub-paragraph (2) to be a member of the selection commission must be non-legally qualified.
4
The Lord Chancellor may nominate a person under sub-paragraph (2) only on the recommendation of the Commission or Board of which the person is a member.
5
The Lord Chancellor may, out of money provided by Parliament, pay to any person nominated under sub-paragraph (2) such allowances as the Lord Chancellor may determine.
6
For the purposes of this paragraph a person is non-legally qualified if—
a
he does not hold, and has never held, any of the offices listed in Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24) (judicial offices disqualifying for membership of the House of Commons), and
b
he is not, and has never been, a practising lawyer.
7
In sub-paragraph (6) “practising lawyer” has the same meaning as in paragraph 6 of Schedule 12 to this Act.