{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/constitutional-reform-act-2005/schedule-4/paragraph-212",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/constitutional-reform-act-2005/schedule-4/paragraph-212.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/4",
  "legislation_title": "Constitutional Reform Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/constitutional-reform-act-2005",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/212",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "212",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 1 (allocation of business between High Court and county courts) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) An order under subsection (1)(a) or (b) may be made only with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice.”\n(3) In subsection (9) for “the President of the Family Division, the Vice-Chancellor” substitute “ the President of the Queen's Bench Division, the President of the Family Division, the Chancellor of the High Court ”.\n(4) After subsection (12) insert—\n“(13) 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 this section.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 212 wholly in force at 3.4.2006; Sch. 4 para. 212 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 148; Sch. 4 para. 212(3) in force at 1.10.2005 by S.I. 2005/2505, art. 2; Sch. 4 para. 212 in force at 3.4.2006 in so far already not in force by S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(s)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/25",
      "affecting_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/15",
      "affecting_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/15",
      "affecting_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/4/schedule/4/paragraph/212",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:37.085861+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}