Persons with responsibilities in connection with a courts-related activity, and persons with responsibilities in connection with the corresponding tribunals activity, must co-operate with each other in relation to the carrying-on of those activities.
In this section "courts-related activity" and "corresponding tribunals activity" are to be read as follows—
making arrangements for training of judiciary of a territory is a courts-related activity, and the corresponding tribunals activity is making arrangements for training of tribunal members;
making arrangements for guidance of judiciary of a territory is a courts-related activity, and the corresponding tribunals activity is making arrangements for guidance of tribunal members;
making arrangements for the welfare of judiciary of a territory is a courts-related activity, and the corresponding tribunals activity is making arrangements for the welfare of tribunal members.
Subsection (1) applies to a person who has responsibilities in connection with a courts-related activity only if—
the person is the chief justice of the territory concerned, or
what the person does in discharging those responsibilities is done (directly or indirectly) on behalf of the chief justice of that territory.
Subsection (1) applies to a person who has responsibilities in connection with a corresponding tribunals activity only if—
the person is the Senior President of Tribunals or the President of Welsh Tribunals, or
what the person does in discharging those responsibilities is done (directly or indirectly) on behalf of the Senior President of Tribunals or the President of Welsh Tribunals.
For the purposes of this section—
"territory" means—
England and Wales,
Scotland, or
Northern Ireland;
the "chief justice"—
of England and Wales is the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales,
of Scotland is the Lord President of the Court of Session, and
of Northern Ireland is the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland;
a person is a "tribunal member" if the person is—
a judge, or other member, of the First-tier Tribunal or Upper Tribunal,
a judge, or other member, of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, or
a member of a panel of members of employment tribunals (whether or not a panel of Employment Judges), . . .
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a judge, or other member, of a tribunal listed in section 59 of the Wales Act 2017 (the Welsh tribunals).