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 1997.
(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 representatives 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 1997 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 1B to the Police Act 1964(1).
1964 c. 48. Schedule 1B was inserted by section 3 and Schedule 2 to the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29). Paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 1B provide for appointment of magistrate members of police authorities established under section 3 of the 1964 Act.