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Tenure of membersE+WProspective3(1)Subject to paragraphs 4 and 5, any member of the Commission shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of his appointment.E+W+S+N.I.(2)But a person shall not be appointed a member of the Commission for a period of more than five years.4(1)A member of the Commission, or the person appointed to chair it, may resign office by giving notice in writing to the [F1Secretary of State]F1.
Annotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F1Words in Sch. 1 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003, (S.I. 2003/1887), art. 9, {Sch. 2 para. 11(1)(f)}5The [F2Secretary of State]F2 may terminate the appointment of a member of the Commission if satisfied that—
(a)he has become bankrupt or made an arrangement with his creditors,
(c)he has been absent from meetings of the Commission for a period longer than six consecutive months without the permission of the Commission, or
(d)he is otherwise unable or unfit to discharge the functions of a member of the Commission.
Annotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F2Words in Sch. 1 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003, (S.I. 2003/1887), art. 9, {Sch. 2 para. 11(1)(f)} Members’ interestsE+W6(1)Before appointing a person to be a member of the Commission, the [F3Secretary of State]F3 shall satisfy himself that that person will have no such financial or other interest as is likely to affect prejudicially the exercise or performance by him of his functions as a member of the Commission.
(2)The [F3Secretary of State]F3 shall from time to time satisfy himself with respect to every member of the Commission that he has no such interest as is referred to in sub-paragraph (1).
(3)Any person whom the [F3Secretary of State]F3 proposes to appoint as, and who has consented to be, a member of the Commission, and any member of the Commission, shall (whenever requested by the [F3Secretary of State]F3 to do so) supply him with such information as the [F3Secretary of State]F3 considers necessary for the performance by the [F3Secretary of State]F3 of his duties under this paragraph.
Annotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F3Words in Sch. 1 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003, (S.I. 2003/1887), art. 9, {Sch. 2 para. 11(1)(f)}7(1)A member of the Commission who is in any way directly or indirectly interested in an individual contract entered into or proposed to be entered into, or an individual grant, loan or other payment made or proposed to be made, by the Commission shall disclose the nature of his interest at a meeting of the Commission; and—E+W(a)the disclosure shall be recorded in the minutes of the Commission, and(b)the member shall not take any part in any deliberation or decision of the Commission with respect to that contract or grant, loan or other payment.(2)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), a general notice given at a meeting of the Commission by a member of the Commission to the effect—(a)that he is a person with whom a contract may be entered into, or to whom a grant, loan or other payment may be made, by the Commission, or(b)that he is a member of a specified body with which a contract may be entered into, or to which a grant, loan or other payment may be made, by the Commission,shall be regarded as a sufficient disclosure of his interest in relation to any contract subsequently entered into with, or grant, loan or other payment made to, him or the body.
(3)A member of the Commission need not attend in person at a meeting of the Commission in order to make any disclosure which he is required to make under this paragraph if he takes reasonable steps to secure that the disclosure is made by a notice which is brought up and read out at the meeting. Remuneration of membersE+W8(1)The Commission may—
as the [F4Secretary of State]F4 may determine.
(2)Where a person ceases to be a member of the Commission otherwise than on the expiry of his term of office, and it appears to the [F4Secretary of State]F4 that there are special circumstances which make it right for that person to receive compensation, the [F4Secretary of State]F4 may require the Commission to make that person a payment of such amount as the [F4Secretary of State]F4 may determine.
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(2)The Commission may appoint such other employees as it thinks fit.
(3)The Commission may only appoint a person to be—
(b)the holder of any other employment of a description specified by the [F5Secretary of State]F5 by direction given to the Commission,
after consultation with, and subject to the approval of, the [F5Secretary of State]F5 .
(4)An appointment under this paragraph may be made on such terms and conditions as the Commission, with the approval of the [F5Secretary of State]F5 , may determine.
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(2)Arrangements under sub-paragraph (1) may include the establishment and administration, by the Commission or otherwise, of one or more pension schemes.
(3)If an employee of the Commission—
the Commission may determine that his service as a member shall be treated for the purposes of the scheme as service as an employee of the Commission whether or not any benefits are to be payable to or in respect of him by virtue of paragraph 8.
(4)Where the Commission exercises the power conferred by sub-paragraph (3), any discretion as to the benefits payable to or in respect of the member concerned which the scheme confers on the Commission shall be exercised only with the approval of the [F6Secretary of State]F6 .
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(a)the exercise by the Commission of functions in relation to the Community Legal Service other than the funding of services, and
(2)The [F7Secretary of State]F7 may—
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(2)Committees—
but the [F8Secretary of State]F8 may by direction require the Commission to make such provision relating to committees as is specified in the direction.
(3)A committee shall act in accordance with such instructions as the Commission may from time to time give; and the Commission may provide for anything done by a committee to have effect as if it had been done by the Commission.
(4)The Commission may pay to the members of any committee such fees and allowances as the [F8Secretary of State]F8 may determine.
(5)The validity of any proceedings of the Commission or of any committee appointed by the Commission shall not be affected by any vacancy among its members or by any defect in the appointment of any member.
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(a)permit any person authorised by the [F9Secretary of State]F9 to inspect and make copies of any accounts or documents of the Commission, and
(b)provide such explanation of them as any such person, or the [F9Secretary of State]F9 , may require.
Annotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F9Words in Sch. 1 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003, (S.I. 2003/1887), art. 9, {Sch. 2 para. 11(1)(f)} Annual reportE+W14(1)The Commission shall provide to the [F10Secretary of State]F10 , as soon as possible after the end of each financial year, a report on how it has during that year—
(a)funded services from the Community Legal Service Fund,
(b)funded services as part of the Criminal Defence Service, and
(2)The [F10Secretary of State]F10 may by direction require the Commission to deal with the matters specified in the direction in reports, or a particular report, under this paragraph.
(3)The [F10Secretary of State]F10 shall lay before each House of Parliament a copy of each report provided to him under this paragraph and the Commission shall publish a report once it has been so laid.
(4)In this paragraph and paragraphs 15 and 16 “financial year” means—
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(a)to fund services from the Community Legal Service Fund,
(b)to fund services as part of the Criminal Defence Service, and
and the plan shall include a summary of what the Commission has ascertained in the exercise of its functions under section 4(6).
(2)The [F11Secretary of State]F11 may by direction require the Commission to deal with the matters specified in the direction in plans, or a particular plan, under sub-paragraph (1).
(3)The Commission shall send a copy of each plan prepared under sub-paragraph (1) to the [F11Secretary of State]F11.
(4)If the [F11Secretary of State]F11 approves it, he shall lay a copy before each House of Parliament and the Commission shall publish the plan once it has been so laid.
(5)If he does not approve it, he shall by direction require the Commission to revise it in accordance with the direction; and the direction shall include the [F12Secretary of State's]F12 reasons for not approving the plan.
(6)When the Commission has revised the plan it shall send the [F11Secretary of State]F11 a copy of the revised plan and he shall lay a copy before each House of Parliament and the Commission shall publish the revised plan once it has been so laid.
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(2)The accounts shall be kept, and the statement of accounts shall be prepared, in such form as the [F13Secretary of State]F13 may, with the approval of the Treasury, specify by direction given to the Commission.
(3)The Commission shall send a copy of the statement of accounts in respect of each financial year to the [F13Secretary of State]F13 and to the Comptroller and Auditor General within such period after the end of the financial year to which it relates as the [F13Secretary of State]F13 may specify by direction given to the Commission.
(b)lay a copy of each such statement of accounts, and his report on it, before each House of Parliament.
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1Services consisting of the provision of help (beyond the provision of general information about the law and the legal system and the availability of legal services) in relation to—
[F14(a)allegations of personal injury or death, other than allegations relating to clinical negligence,
(aa)allegations of negligently caused damage to property,]
F14(b)conveyancing,
(c)boundary disputes,
(d)the making of wills,
(e)matters of trust law,
(f)defamation or malicious falsehood,
(g)matters of company or partnership law, F15...
(h)other matters arising out of the carrying on of a [F16business, orF16]
[F17(i)attending an interview conducted on behalf of the Secretary of State with a view to his reaching a decision on a claim for asylum (as defined by section 167(1) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 F18).F17]
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