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Paragraph 290

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

(1)

Schedule 8 (detention) is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph 29 (warrants of further detention)—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (4)(a) for “by the Lord Chancellor” substitute “ by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales after consulting the Lord Chancellor ”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (4)(c) for “by the Lord Chancellor” substitute “ by the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland after consulting the Lord Chancellor ”;

(c)

after sub-paragraph (4) insert—

“(5)

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 sub-paragraph (4)(a).

(6)

The Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland may nominate any of the following to exercise his functions under sub-paragraph (4)(c)—

(a)

the holder of one of the offices listed in Schedule 1 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002;

(b)

a Lord Justice of Appeal (as defined in section 88 of that Act).”