LAW OFFICERS' DEPARTMENT (MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS) (Hansard, 1 April 1976)

§ The Attorney-General

My noble Friend the Lord Chancelor is responsible for the public appointments listed below:

A. Appointments made by The Queen on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor

(i) High Court Judges
(ii) Circuit Judges
(iii) Recorders
(iv) Stipendiary Magistrates
(v) Chief and other National Insurance Commissioners
(vi) Lay Members of Restrictive Practices Court
(vii) Lay Members of Employment Appeal Tribunal (joint recommendation with Secretary of State for Employment)
(viii) Queen's Counsel
(ix) Judge Advocate General
(x) Judge Advocate of the Fleet
(xi) Common Serjeant
(xii) President and Members of the Transport Tribunal (joint recommendation with Minister of Transport)
(a) Lord Chief Justice^*
(b) Lords Justices of Appeal^*
(c) High Court Judges^*
(d) County Court Judges^*
(e) Resident Magistrates^*
(f) Chief and other National Insurance Commissioners^*

^* Northern Ireland

B. Appointments made by the Lord Chancellor

Masters, Assistant Masters and Registrars of the Supreme Court

Master and Deputy Master of the Court of Protection

Lord Chancellor's Visitors

Official Solicitor

County Court Registrars

Arbitrators under Agricultural Holdings Act 1948 and Agricultural Act 1958

Agricultural Land Tribunals

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Chairman Betting Levy Appeal Tribunal

Deputy Chairman Boundary Commission

Referees under Child Benefit Act 1975

Panel of Chairmen under Childrens Act 1948

Clerk Assistant to House of Lords (subject to approbation of the House of Lords)

Commons Assessors

Commons Commissioners

Conscientious Objectors' Advisory Committee

Conveyancing Counsel to the Court

Coroners (Northern Ireland)

Council on Tribunals (with concurrence of Lord Advocate)

Referee under Customs & Excise Act 1952

Judicial Members (Judges of the High Court) of Employment Appeal Tribunal

Examiners of the Court

Tribunal under Section 463 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 and Chairman Board of Referees under Section 26(7) of the Capital Allowances Act 1968

Referee Finance (No. 2) Act 1964

Referee Finance (No. 2) Act 1966

Referee Finance (No. 2) Act 1972 (Schedule 7 paragraph 12(3))

Fourth Clerk at the Table (Judicial) (subject to approbation of House of Lords)

Foreign Compensation Commissioners

General Commissioners of Income Tax

President and Legal Members of Immigration Appeal Tribunal

Chairman Independent Schools Tribunal

President, full and part-time Chairmen Industrial Tribunals

Iron and Steel Arbitration Tribunal

Vice Judge Advocate General

Assistant Judge Advocates General

Deputy Judge Advocates

Justices of the Peace (excluding Lancashire but including Northern Ireland)

Keeper of Public Records

Chief Land Registrar

Lands Tribunal

Lands Tribunal (Northern Ireland)

Law Commissioners

Lay Observer under Section 28A of Solicitors Act 1975

Legal Aid Advisory Committee

Legal Chairmen Medical Appeals Tribunals

Mental Health Review Tribunals

Chairman of Advisory Body under Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

Chairman of Tribunal under Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

Chairman of Tribunal under Section 42 of National Health Service Act 1946

Adjudicator under National Insurance Act 1965

Chairmen National Insurance Local Tribunals

Chairmen National Service Reinstatement Committee

Pensions Appeal Tribunals

Chairman Performing Right Tribunal

Chairman Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal

Chairman and Legal Member Prevention of Fraud (Investment) Act 1958 Tribunal

Public Trustee

Assessors for civil proceedings in County Courts under Race Relations Act 1968

Reading Clerk and Clerk of the Journals (subject to approbation of the House of Lords)

Chairmen Rent Assessment Panels

Nomination of 3 High Court Judges to Restrictive Practices Court

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Chairmen Supplementary Benefit Appeal Tribunals

Special Panel—10th Schedule to Transport Act 1962

President and Chairmen VAT Tribunals

President Wireless Telegraphy Appeal Tribunal Wreck Commissioners

Of those included in the list, some receive no emoluments, others are paid daily sitting fees. The highest annual salary in 1975 in respect of full-time service was £19,550 paid to the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland; in 1970 he received £10,750. The lowest annual salary in respect of full-time service in 1975 was £6,000 paid to the Lay Observer, whose office was not in existence before 17th February 1975.

I appoint standing counsel to the Treasury and Government Departments, some of whom receive an annual retainer but subject to that receive emoluments on a piecework basis. The highest annual retainer is £7,500 (no equivalent in 1970); the lowest is £2,000 (1970 equivalent 750 guineas).