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Paragraph 325

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

(1)

Section 25 (District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) as justices of the peace) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (2), leave out “or on behalf of the Lord Chancellor” and insert “ the Lord Chief Justice, after consulting the Lord Chancellor ”.

(3)

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 under subsection (2).”