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Paragraph 298

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

(1)

Schedule 1 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (local probation boards) is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph 2 (membership)—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (2) for “Lord Chancellor” substitute “ Lord Chief Justice, after consulting the Lord Chancellor ”;

(b)

after sub-paragraph (7) insert—

“(8)

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 (2).”

(3)

In paragraph 3 (tenure of members), after sub-paragraph (3) insert—

“(3A)

The power conferred by sub-paragraph (3) may be exercised by the Lord Chancellor to remove a person appointed by him by virtue of paragraph 2(2) only with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice.”