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Paragraph 36

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

(1)

Section 27 (meaning of the court) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (2) for “Lord Chancellor may select” substitute “ Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales may, after consulting the Lord Chancellor, select ”.

(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).”