Selection of Commissioners by the Judges’ Council
10.—(1) This regulation applies to the selection of a person for appointment as a Commissioner who is a Lord Justice of Appeal or a puisne judge of the High Court.
(2) The Lord Chancellor may recommend a person for appointment as a Commissioner only if—
(a)the Lord Chancellor has requested the Judges’ Council to select a person to be appointed;
(b)the person has been selected by the Judges’ Council in accordance with that request; and
(c)the selection by the Judges’ Council has been notified to the Lord Chancellor in a report which gives reasons for the selection.
(3) The Lord Chancellor must recommend for appointment the person selected by the Judges’ Council.
(4) In this regulation the Judges’ Council means a body designated for the purposes of these Regulations by the Lord Chief Justice.