Sentences with phrase «independent appointments commission»

16 July 2003: Responding to the report by the joint committee on Lords reform, the government says that there is no consensus in parliament for introducing any elected element into the second chamber, only for removing the remaining 92 hereditary peers and establishing a new independent appointments commission.

Not exact matches

Nowadays, however, the upper house wields far less power than the lower, and the hereditary members are slowly being phased out, replaced by Lords appointed by the Prime Minister or the House of Lords Appointments Commission, an independent body.

A small number of non-party peers are nominated by the independent House of Lords Appointments Commission, while 26 Bishops and 87 hereditary peers make up the remainder.

The confirmation followed the report of the Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC screening of 15 Nominees for Appointment as Resident Electoral Commissioners by the Chairman, Senator Suleiman Nazif, APC, Bauchi North.

The letter came some hours after the upper chamber of the National Assembly, in protest, suspended consideration of the request by the Presidency to approve the appointment of 27 Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

An investigation into the honours system by the public administration select committee concluded that the commission overseeing the appointments process should be made independent from government and given greater powers.

This party bias in the voting system should be balanced by allowing voters the choice of a short vote - «Independent» - a vote for a raft of «official» (quality assured) independent candidates sponsored by an independent peers appointments Independent» - a vote for a raft of «official» (quality assured) independent candidates sponsored by an independent peers appointments independent candidates sponsored by an independent peers appointments independent peers appointments commission.

He said electoral reform and the appointment of Prof. Attahiru Jega as Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman restored his confidence in politics after previous umpires «disappointed» him.

Justice Ayotunde was the Chairman of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission until her latest appointment.

The party also rejected the appointment of Hajia Amina Zakari as the Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

It proposes allowing retirements from the Lords and calls for future appointments to be put on a «more transparent and sustainable basis, with the independent House of Lords appointments commission determining how many vacancies exist».

«The issue is, a charter revision commission should be independent, it should be a wide base of appointments from different entities of city government,» Ms. Brewer said.

The Independent Education Union of Australia (IEUA) welcomed the appointment of Ray Collins to the National Catholic Education Commission.

On Monday, the United Nations Human Rights Council announced the appointment of three members to an independent commission of inquiry to investigate purported violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem and particularly the Gaza Strip.

Further, with the appointment of an independent Special Advisor to oversee the review process and provide advice directly to the Minister, the government has rejected calls for an independent commission.

The Public Service Commission, an independent agency charged with making appointments to the public service, investigated the appointment.

The appointments will be overseen by two independent selection commissions convened by the Lord Chancellor under statutory rules.

The commission to appoint the next President is chaired by a non-lawyer member, Lord Kakkar, and comprises the most senior Justice of the Supreme Court who is not a candidate for the role, another senior UK judge (not a Supreme Court Justice), and representatives from the three independent judicial appointments boards across the UK.

Other proposals include: appointing an independent layperson, instead of a judge, to head the selection panels for the lord chief justice and the president of the Supreme Court; transferring the lord chancellor's judicial appointment powers below either the High Court or the Court of Appeal to the lord chief justice; and restricting judicial appointment commission involvement in selecting judicial office holders who do not require a legal qualification.