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(3) A member shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of his appointment.
(4) A member may resign at any time by notice in writing to the Lord Chancellor.
2. The Lord Chancellor may appoint officers and servants for the Commission.
3. The Lord Chancellor—
- (a) may pay sums by way of remuneration, allowances, pensions and gratuities to or in respect of members, officers and servants,
- (b) may pay compensation to a person who ceases to be a member of the Commission if the Lord Chancellor thinks it appropriate because of special circumstances, and
- (c) may pay sums in respect of expenses of the Commission.
Procedure
4.—(1) The Commission shall sit at such times and in such places as the Lord Chancellor may direct.
(2) The Commission may sit in two or more divisions.
(3) At each sitting of the Commission—
- (a) three members shall attend,
- (b) one of the members shall be a person who holds or has held high judicial
office (within the meaning of the 1876 c. 59.Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876), and
- (c) the chairman or another member nominated by him shall preside and report the Commission’s decision.
5.—(1) The Lord Chancellor may make rules—
- (a) regulating the exercise of the right of appeal to the Commission;
- (b) prescribing practice and procedure to be followed in relation to proceedings before the Commission;
- (c) providing for proceedings before the Commission to be determined without an oral hearing in specified circumstances;
- (d) making provision about evidence in proceedings before the Commission (including provision about the burden of proof and admissibility of evidence);
- (e) making provision about proof of the Commission’s decisions.
(2) In making the rules the Lord Chancellor shall, in particular, have regard to the need to secure—
- (a) that decisions which are the subject of appeals are properly reviewed, and
- (b) that information is not disclosed contrary to the public interest.
(3) The rules shall make provision permitting organisations to be legally represented in proceedings before the Commission.
(4) The rules may, in particular—
- (a) provide for full particulars of the reasons for proscription or refusal to deproscribe to be withheld from the organisation or applicant concerned and from any person representing it or him;
- (b) enable the Commission to exclude persons (including representatives) from all or part of proceedings;
