SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7 Insolvency Practitioners Tribunal

Panels of members

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1

The Secretary of State shall draw up and from time to time revise—

a

a panel of persons who

F1i

have a 7 year general qualification, within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;

ii

are advocates or solicitors in Scotland of at least 7 years’ standing,, and are nominated for the purpose by the Lord Chancellor or the Lord President of the Court of Session, and

b

a panel of persons who are experienced in insolvency matters;

and the members of the Tribunal shall be selected from those panels in accordance with this Schedule.

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The power to revise the panels includes power to terminate a person’s membership of either of them, and is accordingly to that extent subject to F2section 7 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992(which makes it necessary to obtain the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and the Lord President of the Court of Session to dismissals in certain cases).