
2023 No. 65 (W. 10)
Welsh Tribunals
The Judicial Offices (Sitting in Retirement – Prescribed Offices and Descriptions) (Wales) Regulations 2023
Made 23 January 2023
Laid before Senedd Cymru 25 January 2023
Coming into force 17 February 2023
The Welsh Ministers with the concurrence of the President of Welsh Tribunals make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 124(3) and (4)(e) and 129(1)(b) of the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022.
Title and commencement
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The title of these Regulations is the Judicial Offices (Sitting in Retirement – Prescribed Offices and Descriptions) (Wales) Regulations 2023 and they come into force on 17 February 2023.
Interpretation
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In these Regulations—
 “Legally qualified member of the Adjudication Panel for Wales” (“aelod wedi ymgymhwyso yn gyfraith o Banel Dyfarnu Cymru”) means a person (“P”) who when appointed to a prescribed office satisfied the following description—
(a) P satisfied the judicial appointment eligibility condition on a five-year basis;
(b) P was an advocate or solicitor in Scotland of at least five years’ standing;
(c) P was a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland; or
(d) P had such legal experience as the Welsh Ministers considered suitable.
Offices prescribed in relation to an appointment to a sitting in retirement office
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A person who holds or has held an office listed in column 2 of the Table in the Schedule (“prescribed offices”) is eligible for appointment to the sitting in retirement office listed in the corresponding row of column 1.
Mark Drakeford
First Minister, one of the Welsh Ministers
23 January 2023I concur
Wyn Williams
President of Welsh Tribunals
19 January 2023
SCHEDULE
Sitting in Retirement Offices Judicial Offices Listed in Part 5 of Schedule 3 to the Act and Corresponding Prescribed Offices
Regulation 3


Table
Column 1:Sitting in retirement office Column 2:Prescribed offices
1. Deputy Chair of the Agricultural Land Tribunal for Wales (sitting in retirement) Chairman of the Agricultural Land Tribunal for WalesDeputy Chairman of the Agricultural Land Tribunal for Wales
2. Legal member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales (sitting in retirement) President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for WalesLegal member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales
3. Legal member of the Rent Assessment Committee Wales (sitting in retirement) President of the Rent Assessment Committee WalesVice President of the Rent Assessment Committee WalesMember of the panel of persons appointed to act as chairman of the Rent Assessment Committee Wales
4. Legal member of the Welsh Language Tribunal (sitting in retirement) President of the Welsh Language TribunalLegally qualified member of the Welsh Language Tribunal
5.Member of the Adjudication Panel for Wales (sitting in retirement) President of the Adjudication Panel for WalesDeputy President of the Adjudication Panel for WalesLegally qualified Member of the Adjudication Panel for Wales
6. Member of the legal chair panel of the Education Tribunal for Wales (sitting in retirement) President of the Education Tribunal for WalesDeputy President of the Education Tribunal for WalesMember of the legal chair panel of the Education Tribunal for Wales