ASSESSORS TO DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE (Hansard, 22 April 1977)

§ Mr. Clinton Davis
I beg to move, Amendment No. 55, in page 15, line 26, after "Chancellor", insert or, in Scotland, the Lord Advocate".

§ Mr. Deputy Speaker
With this we may take Government Amendment No. 56.

§ Mr. Davis
The intention is that the disciplinary committee should be free to conduct proceedings in Scotland under Scottish law, and amendments have been proposed to Clause 20 to facilitate this. Clause 21, in providing for assessors at disciplinary committee proceedings, empowers the Lord Chancellor to make rules about the functions of assessors. However, in relation to proceedings in Scotland it is appropriate that the Lord Advocate, rather than the Lord Chancellor, should make the rules about assessors. These amendments accordingly give the Lord Advocate the necessary power in that respect.