Section 50 Law Commission

Northern Ireland

(1)

There is to be a body corporate known as the Northern Ireland Law Commission.

(2)

The Commission is to consist of—

(a)

a chairman, and

(b)

four other Commissioners,

appointed by the F1Department of Justice.

(3)

The chairman is to be a person who holds the office of judge of the High Court.

(4)

Of the other Commissioners—

(a)

one is to be a person appearing to the F2Department of Justice to be suitably qualified to be a Commissioner by experience as a barrister,

(b)

one is to be a person appearing to the F3Department of Justice to be suitably qualified to be a Commissioner by experience as a solicitor,

(c)

one is to be a person appearing to the F4Department of Justice to be suitably qualified to be a Commissioner by experience as a teacher of law in a university, and

(d)

the other is to be a person who does not hold (and has never held) judicial office and is not (and has never been) a barrister, solicitor or teacher of law in a university.

(5)

Before appointing a person to be a Commissioner the F5Department of Justice must consult—

F6(a)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)

the First Minister and deputy First Minister, and

(c)

the Attorney General for Northern Ireland.

(6)

In appointing persons to be Commissioners, the F7Department of Justice must so far as possible secure that the Commissioners (taken together) are representative of the community in Northern Ireland.

(7)

Schedule 9 makes further provision about the Commission.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 50(2) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 8(2) (with arts. 28-31)
F2: Words in s. 50(4)(a) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 8(2) (with arts. 28-31)
F3: Words in s. 50(4)(b) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 8(2) (with arts. 28-31)
F4: Words in s. 50(4)(c) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 8(2) (with arts. 28-31)
F5: Words in s. 50(5) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 8(2) (with arts. 28-31)
F6: S. 50(5)(a) omitted (12.4.2010) by virtue of The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 18 para. 65 (with arts. 28-31)
F7: Words in s. 50(6) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 8(2) (with arts. 28-31)