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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/constitutional-reform-act-2005/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/constitutional-reform-act-2005/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/4",
  "legislation_title": "Constitutional Reform Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/constitutional-reform-act-2005",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Other functions of the Lord Chancellor and organisation of the courts",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 4 provides for—\n(a) the transfer of functions to or from the Lord Chancellor,\n(b) the modification of other functions of the Lord Chancellor,\n(c) the modification of enactments relating to those functions, and\n(d) the modification of enactments relating to the organisation of the courts.\n(2) Schedule 5 makes similar provision about functions under legislation relating to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 partly in force; s. 15 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 148; s. 15(2) in force for specified purposes at 31.8.2005 by S.I. 2005/2284, art. 2; s. 15 in force for specified purposes at 3.4.2006 by S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 15(2) in force at 12.4.2010 for specified purposes by S.I. 2010/883, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/4/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:37.085861+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}