HC Deb 25 April 1988 vol 132 cc89-90

5.—(1) Regulations under paragraph 1 above may include provision—

  1. (a) that a tribunal shall appoint a clerk of the tribunal and may appoint other employees;
  2. (b) that a tribunal shall pay to its employees such remuneration and allowances as the tribunal determines;
  3. (c) that (subject to disqualification) employees shall be appointed on such other terms and conditions as the tribunal may determine;
  4. (d) that an appointment shall be invalid unless made with the approval of the Secretary of State;
  5. (e) that a determination as to remuneration or allowances shall be valid unless made with the approval of the Secretary of State given with the Treasury's consent;
  6. (f) that persons are to be disqualified from becoming or continuing to be employees in prescribed circum-stances;
  7. (g) that employees are to be disqualified from acting in cases falling within prescribed descriptions;
  8. (h) that prescribed factors are not to disqualify persons from becoming or continuing to be employees;
  9. (i) that prescribed factors are not to disqualify employees from acting.

(2) The regulations may include provision—

  1. (a) that any function of making an appointment, or determing remuneration or allowances or other terms or conditions, may be performed on behalf of a tribunal by two or more of its members;
  2. (b) that one of those members must be the president.

(3)The regulations may include provision for the administration of employees' remuneration and allowances to be the responsibility of the clerk of the tribunal.

(4) The regulations may include provision that where a person ceases to be employed by a local valuation panel and immediately becomes employed by a valuation and community charge tribunal, for the purposes of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 his period of employment by the panel shall count as a period of employment by the tribunal and the change of employment shall not break the continuity of the period of employment.

(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (4) above a local valuation panel is a local valuation panel constituted under a scheme under section 88 of the 1967 Act.

(6) Employment with a valuation and community charge tribunal shall be included among the kinds of employment to which a scheme under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 can apply, and accordingly in Schedule 1 to that Act (in which those kinds of employment are listed) "a valuation and community charge tribunal" shall be inserted after "Police Complaints Authority".