Schedules

Schedule 15The Sentencing Council for England and Wales

Appointment of non-judicial members

4(1)A person is eligible for appointment as a non-judicial member if the person appears to the Lord Chancellor to have experience in one or more of the following areas—

(a)criminal defence;

(b)criminal prosecution;

(c)policing;

(d)sentencing policy and the administration of justice;

(e)the promotion of the welfare of victims of crime;

(f)academic study or research relating to criminal law or criminology;

(g)the use of statistics;

(h)the rehabilitation of offenders.

(2)The persons eligible for appointment as a non-judicial member by virtue of experience of criminal prosecution include the Director of Public Prosecutions.