The Police Authorities (Lay Justices Selection Panel) Regulations 2005

Consideration of applications by panel

6.—(1) A panel shall consider any application for appointment as a lay justice member which has been duly made under regulation 5.

(2) In considering any such application the panel–

(a) shall have regard to guidance produced jointly by the Home Office and the Association of Police Authorities;

(b) may interview any candidate who has submitted an application.

(3) Where an application has been received at a time when no appointment under paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 or paragraph 5 of Schedule 2A (as the case may be) to the 1996 Act is required to be made, the panel may delay considering it until such time as the panel are required to prepare a short-list of candidates for appointment.

(4) Subject to paragraph (6), a panel may consider applications under paragraph (1), may interview candidates under paragraph (2)(b) and may prepare a short-list under paragraph 4 of Schedule 3A to the 1996 Act only if all of their members are present.

(5) A decision of a panel to include a candidate in a short-list under paragraph 4 of Schedule 3A to the 1996 Act may be taken by a majority of their members.

(6) A panel may act if two of their three members are present if–

(a) not less than one week’s notice was given of the meeting in question; or

(b) the member of the panel who is not present has previously consented in writing to the other members acting in his absence; or

(c) the member of the panel who is not present has died; or

(d) the meeting is held for the purpose of making the appointment referred to in paragraph 1(2)(c) of Schedule 3A to the 1996 Act.