11.—(1) This regulation applies to the selection of a senior tribunal office-holder member as a Commissioner.
(2) The Lord Chancellor may recommend such a person for appointment as a Commissioner only if—
(a)the Senior President of Tribunals has requested the Tribunal Judges’ Council to select a person to be appointed;
(b)the person has been selected by the Tribunal Judges’ Council in accordance with that request; and
(c)the selection by the Tribunal Judges’ Council has been notified to the Lord Chancellor in a report which gives reasons for the selection.
(3) The Lord Chancellor must recommend for appointment the person selected by the Tribunal Judges’ Council.
(4) In this regulation the Tribunal Judges’ Council means a body designated for the purposes of these Regulations by the Senior President of Tribunals.