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(1)Section 3 of the 2000 Act (appointment of Electoral Commissioners etc) is amended as follows.
(2)For subsection (2) there is substituted—
“(2)A motion for such an Address may be made only if—
(a)the Speaker of the House of Commons agrees that the motion may be made;
(b)the motion has been the subject of consultation with the registered leader of each registered party to which two or more Members of the House of Commons then belong; and
(c)each person whose appointment is proposed in the motion has been selected in accordance with a procedure put in place and overseen by the Speaker’s Committee.”
(3)After subsection (5) there is inserted—
“(5A)In the case of a re-appointment (or further re-appointment) of an Electoral Commissioner, the reference in subsection (2)(c) to being selected in accordance with a procedure put in place and overseen by the Speaker’s Committee is to be read as including a reference to being recommended for re-appointment (or further re-appointment) by that Committee.”
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