Part 3: Judicial Offices Section 124: Appointment to sitting in retirement offices
Section 124 makes provision for the eligibility criteria and steps that must be taken for appointment to a sitting in retirement office. This includes section 124(1) which confirms that sitting in retirement offices are subject to business need, and that the appointee must be qualified for appointment to the relevant original office. Section 124(2) sets out which member of the senior judiciary will be responsible for appointments to each sitting in retirement office.
	Section 124(3) and (4) together ensure that appointees to sitting in retirement offices have previously held specific judicial offices, to be set out further in regulations by the Northern Ireland Department of Justice, the Welsh Ministers or the Lord Chancellor as appropriate. Such regulations may also prescribe additional eligibility requirements. Section 124(11) confirms that these regulations are to be made under the negative procedure.
	Section 124(5) to 124(8) requires appropriate concurrence before a sitting in retirement appointment is made.
	Section 124(9) and 124(10) allows the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland respectively to delegate their powers under the section to a nominated judicial office holder to exercise these powers on their behalf.