Clause 3 - Judicial Appointments Commission
Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill
5:30 pm
Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire, Liberal Democrat)
I beg to move amendment No. 140, in page 2, line 19, leave out paragraph (b) and insert—
'(b) five persons nominated by the Lord Chief Justice and appointed by the First and deputy First minister, acting jointly (referred to in this section and Schedule 2 as ''judicial members''),
(c) a barrister nominated by the General Council of the Bar of Northern Ireland and a solicitor nominated by the Law Society of Northern Ireland and appointed by the First and deputy First Minister, acting jointly (so referred to as ''legal profession members''), and
(d) five persons who do not hold (and have never held) a protected judicial office and are not (and have never been) barristers or solicitors, appointed by the Secretary of State (so referred to as ''lay members'');
and a reference in Schedule 2 to a non-judicial member is to a member who is either a legal profession member or a lay member.'.