2(1)The members appointed as President or as chairmen shall hold and vacate office in accordance with their terms of appointment, subject to the following provisions.U.K.
(2)A person may not be a chairman for more than 8 years (but this does not prevent a temporary re-appointment for the purpose of continuing to act as a member of the Tribunal as constituted for the purposes of any proceedings instituted before the end of his term of office).
(3)The President and the chairmen may resign their offices by notice in writing to the Lord Chancellor.
(4)The Lord Chancellor may remove a person from office as President or chairman on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour.
[F1(5)The Lord Chancellor may remove a person from office as President under sub-paragraph (4) only with the concurrence of all of the following—
(a)the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales;
(b)the Lord President of the Court of Session;
(c)the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.
(6)The Lord Chancellor may remove a person from office as chairman under sub-paragraph (4) only with the concurrence of the appropriate senior judge.
(7)The appropriate senior judge is the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, unless—
(a)the person to be removed exercises functions wholly or mainly in Scotland, in which case it is the Lord President of the Court of Session, or
(b)the person to be removed exercises functions wholly or mainly in Northern Ireland, in which case it is the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 para. 2(5)-(7) inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 148, 279, Sch. 4 para. 306; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(x)
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F2Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]