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

(1)

Section 73 (delegation of certain administrative functions of Master of the Rolls) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (3)—

(a)

for “Lord Chancellor may” substitute “ Lord Chief Justice may, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, ”;

(b)

for “Lord Chancellor considers” substitute “ Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor consider ”.

(3)

After subsection (5) insert—

“(6)

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 (3).”