The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Oaths) Regulations 2017

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Paragraph 11 of schedule 7 of the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 requires a Chamber President in, and members of, the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland to take “the required oaths”, being the oath of allegiance and the judicial oath as set out in the Promissory Oaths Act 1868.

Regulation 2 allows a person who is to become a Chamber President to take the oaths prior to taking up that office, where that person is the President of an existing listed tribunal and has received a letter from the Scottish Ministers stating their intention to appoint him or her as a Chamber President.

Regulation 3 makes provision allowing a person who is to become a member of the First-tier Tribunal in connection with the transfer to that Tribunal of the functions of an existing tribunal to take the oaths on a day prior to membership commencing. The oaths may be taken in the presence of the President of the existing tribunal in question or of a person who is to become a Chamber President in the chamber of the Tribunal to which the functions of that existing tribunal are to be allocated.