Part 1The Electoral Commission

Electoral Commissioners etc

4Selection of prospective Electoral Commissioners and Commission chairman

(1)

Section 3 of the 2000 Act (appointment of Electoral Commissioners etc) is amended as follows.

(2)

For subsection (2) there is substituted—

“(2)

A motion for such an Address may be made only if—

(a)

the Speaker of the House of Commons agrees that the motion may be made;

(b)

the motion has been the subject of consultation with the registered leader of each registered party to which two or more Members of the House of Commons then belong; and

(c)

each person whose appointment is proposed in the motion has been selected in accordance with a procedure put in place and overseen by the Speaker's Committee.”

(3)

After subsection (5) there is inserted—

“(5A)

In the case of a re-appointment (or further re-appointment) of an Electoral Commissioner, the reference in subsection (2)(c) to being selected in accordance with a procedure put in place and overseen by the Speaker's Committee is to be read as including a reference to being recommended for re-appointment (or further re-appointment) by that Committee.”