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Paragraph 23

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

(1)

Section 7 (further assistance for transaction of judicial business) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsections (1) and (2) for “Lord Chancellor” substitute “ Lord Chief Justice ”.

(3)

After subsection (4) insert—

“(5)

The Lord Chief Justice may nominate any of the following to exercise his functions under this section—

(a)

the holder of one of the offices listed in Schedule 1 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002;

(b)

a Lord Justice of Appeal (as defined in section 88 of that Act).”