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Article 5 Eligibility and removal

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

A justice shall not be nominated to the panel unless—

(a)

he is a justice who acts for the Greater London area;

(b)

he has acted as a justice for a minimum period of two years;

(c)

he has indicated that he is willing to serve as a member of the panel; and

(d)

he is suitable, in the opinion of the Lord Chancellor, to serve as a member of the panel.

(2)

A justice shall be eligible for nomination to the panel whether or not he—

(a)

has been a member of the panel before, or

(b)

is, or has been, a member of any other panel.

(3)

The Lord Chancellor may remove from the panel any justice who, in his opinion, is unsuitable to serve on the panel.