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

(1)

Section 15 (lay justices' allowances) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (7) for “Lord Chancellor” substitute “ Lord Chief Justice ”.

(3)

After subsection (8) insert—

“(9)

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 (7).”