Article 19 Division of a combined FTDC

(1)

The Lord Chief Justice may—

(a)

of his own motion; or

(b)

on the application of the combined FTDC in question,

direct that the family panels for the local justice areas within a combined FTDC replace the combined FTDC with—

(i)

a single FTDC for each local justice area or areas to which a family panel relates;

(ii)

more than one combined FTDC; or

(iii)

a combination of single and combined FTDCs.

(2)

If the family panels for two or more local justice areas replace a combined FTDC as mentioned in paragraph (1)—

(a)

the existing members of the combined FTDC shall retire on 31st December of the calendar year in which the decision is made; and

(b)

members of each single or combined FTDC appointed in that year shall hold office from the 1st January in the following year for the following periods—

(i)

one year, in the case of one third of the members;

(ii)

two years, in the case of one third of the members; and

(iii)

three years, in the case of the remaining third of the members.