The Contracting Out (Administrative Work of Tribunals) Order 2009

Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 121

Tribunals And Inquiries

Contracting Out

The Contracting Out (Administrative Work of Tribunals) Order 2009

Made

22nd January 2009

Laid before Parliament

30th January 2009

Coming into force

2nd March 2009

The Lord Chancellor makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 40(4) and 145(1) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007(1).

In accordance with section 40(5) of that Act the Lord Chancellor has consulted the Senior President of Tribunals.

1.  This Order may be cited as the Contracting Out (Administrative Work of Tribunals) Order 2009 and comes into force on 2nd March 2009.

2.  The Lord Chancellor may enter into such contracts with other persons for the provision, by them or their sub-contractors, of staff to carry out the administrative work of—

(a) the First-tier Tribunal;

(b) the Upper Tribunal;

(c) employment tribunals;

(d) the Employment Appeal Tribunal; and

(e) the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.

3.  In the table in article 2(2) of the Contracting Out of Functions (Tribunal Staff) Order 2001(2) omit the following entries—

(a) paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999(3) (Immigration Appeal Tribunal); and

(b) paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to that Act (adjudicators for the purposes of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999).

By authority of the Lord Chancellor

Bridget Prentice

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Ministry of Justice

22nd January 2009

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order enables the Lord Chancellor to enter into contracts with other persons for the provision of staff for carrying out the administrative work of the tribunals listed in the Order. The Order also amends the Contracting Out of Functions (Tribunal Staff) Order 2001 so as to omit entries relating to provisions in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 which have been repealed.

(1)

2007 c. 15.

(2)

S.I. 2001/3539.

(3)

1999 c. 33. Schedules 2 and 3 were repealed by the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41).