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Paragraph 233

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

(1)

Section 55 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (magistrates' courts, justices of the peace etc) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1)—

(a)

after “Lord Chancellor may” insert “ , after consulting the Lord Chief Justice, ”;

(b)

for “he thinks necessary or expedient” substitute “ the Lord Chancellor thinks necessary or expedient, after consulting the Lord Chief Justice, ”.

(3)

In subsection (3)—

(a)

after “Lord Chancellor may” insert “ , after consulting the Lord Chief Justice, ”;

(b)

for “appears to him expedient” substitute “ appears to the Lord Chancellor to be expedient, after consulting the Lord Chief Justice, ”.