3(1)Section 26 (selection of members of the Supreme Court) is amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In subsection (5) (Lord Chancellor to convene selection commission to fill any vacancy among the members, or in the presiding offices, of the Court) for “one of the offices mentioned in subsection (1),” substitute “ the office of President of the Court or in the office of Deputy President of the Court, ”.
(3)After subsection (5) insert—
“(5A)If—
(a)the full-time equivalent number of judges of the Court is less than the maximum specified in section 23(2), or it appears to the Lord Chancellor that the full-time equivalent number of judges of the Court will soon be less than that maximum, and
(b)the Lord Chancellor, or the senior judge of the Court, after consulting the other considers it desirable that a recommendation be made for an appointment to the office of judge of the Court,
the Lord Chancellor must convene a selection commission for the selection of a person to be recommended.
(5B)In subsection (5A)(b) “the senior judge of the Court” means—
(a)the President of the Court, or
(b)if there is no President, the Deputy President, or
(c)if there is no President and no Deputy President, the senior ordinary judge.”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 13 para. 3 in force at 1.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/2200, art. 3(d) (with savings in S.I. 2013/2193, reg. 23)