The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Dyfed and Powys) Amalgamation Order 1998

The selection panel for the transferee committee

4.—(1) The justices for the committee areas of the transferor committees shall establish a selection panel for the committee area of the transferee committee and appoint the first members of that panel in accordance with the following sub-paragraphs.

(2) The selection panel shall come into existence on the first appointed day, and the first members of the selection panel shall be appointed for a period beginning on the first appointed day and ending on 31st December 2000.

(3) The transferor committees shall by the day before the first appointed day appoint a clerk to the selection panel (who may be the clerk designate), and the clerk to the selection panel shall act as such from the first appointed day until such time as the transferee committee shall appoint a justices' chief executive and thereafter the justices' chief executive shall act as clerk to the selection panel.

(4) For the purposes of the appointment of the first members of the selection panel, the names of the representative from each bench shall be notified to the clerk to the selection panel by the day before the first appointed day, and regulation 5(9) of the Constitution Regulations shall not apply.

(5) Except as provided in the preceding sub-paragraphs, regulation 5 of the Constitution Regulations shall apply in relation to the appointment of the first members of the selection panel.

(6) The members of the selection panel for all periods after 31st December 2000 shall be appointed in accordance with regulation 5 of the Constitution Regulations.

(7) The selection panel shall not until the amalgamation date constitute a panel for the purposes of paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the Police Act 1996(1).

(1)

1996 c. 16. Paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 2 provide for appointment of magistrate members of police authorities established under section 3 of that Act.