39 Supplementary panel
Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (2005 c 4) | Legislation

39  Supplementary panel

(1)     There is to be a panel of persons known as the supplementary panel.

(2)     On the commencement of this section any member of the House of Lords who—

(a)     meets one of the conditions in subsection (3),

(b)     does not hold high judicial office,

(c)     has not attained the age of 75, and

(d)     is not a person who was appointed to the office of Lord Chancellor on or after 12 June 2003,

becomes a member of the panel.

(3)     The conditions are—

(a)     that he ceased to hold high judicial office less than 5 years before the commencement of this section;

(b)     that he was a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council immediately before that commencement;

(c)

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