Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority: Non-Executive Director Appointment

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A decision made 11 April 2012:

Decision Reference: MD-E-2012-0044

Decision Summary Title :

Appointment of Mr. Peter Neville as Non-Executive Director of the JCRA.

Date of Decision Summary:

5 April 2012

Decision Summary Author:

Strategy Manager, Policy and Regulation

Decision Summary:

Public or Exempt?

(State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

Public

Type of Report:

Oral or Written?

Written

Person Giving

Oral Report:

N/A

Written Report

Title :

Jersey Competition Regulatory

Authority: Appointment of

Non-Executive Director

Date of Written Report:

5 April 2012

Written Report Author:

Strategy Manager. Policy and Regulation

Written Report :

Public or Exempt?

(State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

Public

Subject: Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority -appointment of Mr. Peter Neville as a Non-Executive Director

Decision(s): The Minister appointed Mr. Peter Neville to the Board of the JCRA under powers conferred by Article 3(1)(b) of the Competition and Regulatory Authority (Jersey) Law 2001. The period of appointment is 11th April 2012 for a period of three years, to expire on 10th April 2015.

The Minister directed that the States be notified of the appointment in accordance with Article 3 (3) of the Law.

Reason(s) for Decision: Under the Competition Regulatory legislation as above, the Minister must appoint members of the JCRA Board after having first discussed such appointment with the Chairman of the Authority.

Resource Implications: Fees payable to Non-Executive Directors of the Authority are sourced from the Annual Grant made to the JCRA to administer the Competition Law as well as from the JCRA’s own accounts. There are therefore no resource implications for the States as a consequence of this decision.

Action required: The Greffier of the States is to be requested to arrange for the attached report to be presented to the States as an ‘R’ to inform members of Mr. Neville’s appointment in accordance with Article 3 (3) of the above Law.

The JCRA is to be informed that the Minister is content to appoint Mr Neville and a contract is to be signed.

Signature: Senator A.J.H.Maclean

Position: Minister

Date Signed:

Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority: Non-Executive Director Appointment

REPORT

Under Article 3(3) of the Competition Regulatory Authority (Jersey) Law 2001, the Minister for Economic Development is required to notify the States of appointments of members of the Jersey Competition and Regulatory Authority (JCRA).

After a competition held under the auspices of the Jersey Appointments Commission, Mr Peter Neville was recommended to the Economic Development Minister to be a Non-Executive Director of the JCRA. The Minister has approved this recommendation and appointed Mr Neville to the Board of the JCRA from 11th April 2012 for a period of 3 years.

This appointment results primarily from the ongoing integration between Guernsey’s Office of Utility Regulation (OUR) and the JCRA. These two organisations have been strengthening co-operation for several years in order to reduce the cost to both Islands and to develop an effective pan-Channel Island regulatory framework, and currently share a Chief Executive.

The JCRA Board is currently acting as a “shadow board” for the OUR and it is planned that when the OUR adopts a Board structure later this summer the two regulators will share the same Board.

Mr. Neville’s appointment will more fairly balance the membership of the board across the two islands. For a period the JCRA will have an additional member but Robert Foster is due to retire from the Board in July 2012 and the board will continue to operate with a Chairman, three non-executive directors and the executive director.

Mr Neville holds an Honours Degree in Law from Oxford University, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Distinguished Fellow of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors.

He has had a long career in the finance industry in several jurisdictions and served for eight years as the Director General of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, until his retirement in 2009.

He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Kleinwort Benson (Channel Islands) Limited and Mytrah Energy Limited, a company which is involved in installing and operating wind farms in India.

He is the Director of the Guernsey Adult Literacy Project, and is involved with several community projects in Guernsey.