The Courts Boards (Appointments and Procedure) Regulations 2004

Appointment of courts board appointments advisory panels

4.—(1) In any case in which these Regulations indicate that functions are to be discharged in respect of a courts board by or in relation to a courts board appointments advisory panel, the Lord Chancellor shall appoint such a panel in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

(2) A courts board appointments advisory panel shall comprise—

(a) except as provided by paragraph (3), a person in the civil service of the state who appears to the Lord Chancellor to be appropriate for this purpose;

(b) a person who has been trained in a manner approved by the Commissioner for Public Appointments to act as an independent appointments assessor; and

(c) except as provided by paragraph (4), a member of the courts board in respect of which the functions mentioned in paragraph (1) are to be discharged.

(3) In any case where an appointment to a courts board appointments advisory panel is to be made prior to the commencement of section 2(1) and of paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 to the Act, a person appointed under paragraph (2)(a) shall be a person either in the civil service of the state or in the employment of a magistrates' courts committee who appears to the Lord Chancellor to be appropriate for this purpose.

(4) In any case in which either there are no members of a courts board for the relevant area or it appears to the Lord Chancellor that no member of the relevant courts board may reasonably be appointed to a courts board appointments advisory panel, he shall instead appoint some other person who appears to him to have appropriate knowledge or experience of the working of the courts in the relevant courts board area.