SCHEDULE 4Fitness to teach: further provision
Legal assessor3
1
The GTCS must appoint a legal assessor to advise it on questions of law arising in proceedings held under paragraph 2.
2
A legal assessor must be an advocate or solicitor of not less than 10 years’ standing.
3
A legal assessor—
a
may be appointed generally or for particular proceedings or types of proceeding;
b
is to be remunerated by the GTCS at such rates as it may determine;
c
otherwise holds and vacates office in accordance with the instrument appointing the legal assessor.
4
The Lord President may, by statutory instrument, make rules relating to the functions of legal assessors.
5
Those rules may, in particular—
a
contain provision for ensuring that every party to proceedings is informed of the legal assessor’s advice to the GTCS;
b
require the GTCS to inform every party to proceedings of any case where it does not accept the legal assessor’s advice;
c
contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as the Lord President considers expedient.
6
The Statutory Instruments Act 19466 applies to any such statutory instrument as if the instrument had been made by a Minister of the Crown.