Administration of Justice Act 1970

Patents and Registered Designs Appeal Tribunals

10 Temporary additional judges

(1) If it appears to the Lord Chancellor expedient, having regard to the state of business pending before the Patents Appeal Tribunal or the Registered Designs Appeal Tribunal, he may appoint—

(a) a judge of the Court of Appeal; or

(b) a person who has held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court; or

(c) one of Her Majesty's counsel,

to sit and act as an additional judge of the Tribunal (either alone or with a judge of the High Court who is a judge of the Tribunal) for such period, or for the purpose of hearing such appeals, as the Lord Chancellor may specify.

(2) A person appointed to either Tribunal under this section shall, while sitting and acting as aforesaid, have all the jurisdiction of, but shall not otherwise be deemed to be, a judge of the Tribunal.

(3) The Lord Chancellor may pay to a person appointed to either Tribunal under this section (other than a judge of the Court of Appeal) such remuneration as he may determine with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service ; and any such remuneration shall be included in the expenses of the Tribunal.

(4) In this section " the Patents Appeal Tribunal " means the Appeal Tribunal constituted under section 85 of the [1949 c. 87.] Patents Act 1949 (as amended by section 24 of the [1969 c. 58.] Administration of Justice Act 1969); and " the Registered Designs Appeal Tribunal" means the Appeal Tribunal constituted under section 28 of the [1949 c. 88.] Registered Designs Act 1949 (as so amended).

(5) In subsection (8) of the said section 85 and subsection (8) of the said section 28 (which confer power on the two Tribunals to make rules about procedure etc.), there shall in each case be inserted at the end of the subsection the words " including right of audience ".