§ 5.—(1) Regulations under paragraph 1 above may include provision—
- (a) that a tribunal shall appoint a clerk of the tribunal and may appoint other employees;
- (b) that a tribunal shall pay to its employees such remuneration and allowances as the tribunal determines;
- (c) that (subject to disqualification) employees shall be appointed on such other terms and conditions as the tribunal may determine;
- (d) that an appointment shall be invalid unless made with the approval of the Secretary of State;
- (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;
- (f) that persons are to be disqualified from becoming or continuing to be employees in prescribed circum-stances;
- (g) that employees are to be disqualified from acting in cases falling within prescribed descriptions;
- (h) that prescribed factors are not to disqualify persons from becoming or continuing to be employees;
- (i) that prescribed factors are not to disqualify employees from acting.
§ (2) The regulations may include provision—
- (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;
- (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.
90§ (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".