Commentary on Sections Schedule 1: Children's Commissioner
17.This Schedule makes provision concerning the status, general powers, appointment, and remuneration of the Commissioner. It provides for the staffing of his office, and accounting procedures. It also adds the Commissioner and members of his staff to the list of office holders who are disqualified from being members of the House of Commons or the Northern Ireland Assembly.
18.Paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 1 places a duty on the Secretary of State to involve children in the appointment of the Commissioner to the extent he feels is appropriate and in a manner he chooses.
19.Paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 amends the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000. Section 35 of the Act makes it an offence for someone who is disqualified under the Act from working with children knowingly to apply for, offer to do, accept or do any work in a regulated position as defined in section 36. Paragraph 11 adds the Commissioner and his deputy to the list of regulated positions in section 36.