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Paragraph 321

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

(1)

Section 20 (rules) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1) for “Lord Chancellor” substitute “ Lord Chief Justice ”.

(3)

In subsection (2)—

(a)

for “Lord Chancellor” substitute “ Lord Chief Justice ”;

(b)

before paragraph (a) insert—

“(za)

the Lord Chancellor,”.

(4)

After subsection (2) insert—

“(3)

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 of making the rules referred to in this section.”