Paragraph 5

United Kingdom

(1)

The Ministers shall draw up and from time to time revise—

(a)

a panel of persons who have wide general knowledge in the field of agriculture, of horticulture or of forestry; and

(b)

a panel of persons who have specialised knowledge of particular species or groups of plants F1or of the seeds industry,

and the members of the Tribunal (other than the chairman and deputy chairman) shall be selected from those panels in accordance with this Schedule.

(2)

The power to revise the said panels shall include power to terminate a person’s membership of either of them, and shall accordingly to that extent be subject to F2section 8 of the M1Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 (which makes it necessary to obtain the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and of certain judicial officers in Scotland and Northern Ireland to dismissals in certain cases).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words added by European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), s. 4, Sch. 4 para. 5(5)
F2: Words substituted by Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 (c. 62), s. 18(4)

Marginal citations

M1: 1971 c. 62.

Notes on Schedule 4

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 4 repealed (8.5.1998) by 1997 c. 66, s. 52, Sch. 4; S.I. 1998/1028, art. 2