The Judicial Offices (Sitting in Retirement – Prescribed Offices and Descriptions) (Wales) Regulations 2023

Title and commencement

1.  The title of these Regulations is the Judicial Offices (Sitting in Retirement – Prescribed Offices and Descriptions) (Wales) Regulations 2023 and they come into force on 17 February 2023.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“Legally qualified member of the Adjudication Panel for Wales” (“aelod wedi ymgymhwyso yn gyfraith o Banel Dyfarnu Cymru”) means a person (“P”) who when appointed to a prescribed office satisfied the following description—

(a)

P satisfied the judicial appointment eligibility condition on a five-year basis;

(b)

P was an advocate or solicitor in Scotland of at least five years’ standing;

(c)

P was a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland; or

(d)

P had such legal experience as the Welsh Ministers considered suitable.

Offices prescribed in relation to an appointment to a sitting in retirement office

3.  A person who holds or has held an office listed in column 2 of the Table in the Schedule (“prescribed offices”) is eligible for appointment to the sitting in retirement office listed in the corresponding row of column 1.

Mark Drakeford

First Minister, one of the Welsh Ministers

23 January 2023

I concur

Wyn Williams

President of Welsh Tribunals

19 January 2023