The Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority (Constitution) Regulations 1999

Selection panel

6.—(1) The Authority shall establish a selection panel which shall be responsible for selecting the members of the Authority except the mayoral nominees.

(2) All members of the selection panel shall have skill and experience in selection and recruitment, including the selection of appropriate persons by reference to specific criteria.

(3) The justices' chief executive of the Authority shall act as clerk to the selection panel.

(4) The selection panel shall consist of not less than 5 and not more than 11 members.

(5) The ALG shall nominate one member to serve on the selection panel in a year by notifying the clerk to the selection panel by 31st December in the preceding year.

(6) Subject to paragraph (7), the Authority shall nominate the other members to serve on the selection panel in a year by notifying the clerk to the selection panel by 31st December in the preceding year.

(7) The Authority may only nominate a person to serve on the selection panel if that person is either—

(a) a lay magistrate who is a justice of the peace for a commission area in Greater London; or

(b) a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) who is for the time being acting as a justice of the peace in Greater London.

(8) No member shall be eligible for appointment to the selection panel if he would be 70 years of age before the expiry of the period for which, but for this paragraph, he would be appointed.

(9) No member of the selection panel shall be selected as a member of the Authority during the period of appointment.

(10) Subject to paragraph (14), a member of the selection panel shall be appointed for one year commencing on 1st January and shall, subject to paragraphs (8) and (9), be eligible for reappointment.

(11) The members of the selection panel shall choose a chairman from amongst themselves, and that chairman shall serve until the expiry of his period of appointment to the selection panel.

(12) A quorum of the selection panel shall be constituted by one lay magistrate and two other members who may, but need not, be lay magistrates.

(13) If a casual vacancy on the selection panel arises—

(a) if the vacancy was previously filled by a member nominated by the ALG, the ALG shall nominate a replacement by notifying the clerk to the selection panel;

(b) otherwise, the Authority may nominate a replacement by notifying the clerk to the selection panel, but there is no obligation to do so unless the selection panel would otherwise be inquorate.

(14) A replacement member shall serve only for the remaining part of the period for which the member he replaced was appointed.