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Paragraph 130

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Section 63 (business assigned to specially nominated judges) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1) for “by the Lord Chancellor” substitute “ by the Lord Chief Justice after consulting the Lord Chancellor ”.

(3)

In subsection (2) for “Lord Chancellor” substitute “ Lord Chief Justice, after consulting the Lord Chancellor, to be ”.

(4)

After subsection (3) insert—

“(4)

The Lord Chief Justice may nominate a judicial office holder (as defined in section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) to exercise his functions under subsection (1) or (2).”