Part 2: Legislative and executive competence: further provision Part 3: Welsh Tribunals Section 63: Cross-deployment of tribunal members and judges
This section is concerned with cross deployment between the Welsh Tribunals and courts and tribunals for England and Wales. Subsection (1) allows a member of a Welsh Tribunal to sit in the First-tier Tribunal, if asked to do so by the Senior President of the Tribunals (an England and Wales office) and the President of the Welsh Tribunals agrees. Subsection (2) includes a similar provision for members of the First-tier or Upper Tribunals to be deployed in the Welsh Tribunals if requested to do so by the President of Welsh tribunals and if the Senior President of the Tribunals agrees. Subsection 4 provides that judges of other courts could also be deployed to Welsh Tribunals if the President of Welsh Tribunals asked them to do so, but in this case, the Lord Chief Justice rather than the Senior President of the Tribunals needs to agree to such deployments. The list of judges to which this refers is set out in subsection 6. Subsection 7 states that references to the President of Welsh Tribunals, the Senior President of the Tribunals and the Lord Chief Justice, in the context of decisions about cross-deployment, should be taken to include a person designated to act on his or her behalf.