(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.
Textual Amendments
F1Words 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)
F2Words 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)
F3Words 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)
F4Words 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)
F5Words 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)
F6S. 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)
F7Words 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)