# Courts Act 2003, Section 64: Power to alter judicial titles

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(1) The Lord Chancellor may by order—
(a) alter the name of an office listed in subsection (2);
(b) provide for or alter the way in which the holders of any of those offices are to be styled.
(2) The offices are—
Admiralty Registrar
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President of the Business and Property Division
Chief Master of the Business and Property Division
Chief Insolvency and Companies Court Judge
Chief Taxing Master
Circuit judge
Deputy Circuit judge
Deputy district judge appointed under section 102 of the 1981 Act
Deputy district judge appointed under section 8 of the County Courts Act 1984
Deputy Head of Civil Justice
Deputy Head of Family Justice
Deputy judge of the High Court
District judge of the county court
District judge of the High Court
District judge of the principal registry of the Family Division
District probate registrar
Head of Civil Justice
Head of Family Justice
Insolvency and Companies Court Judge
Lord Chief Justice
Master of the Business and Property Division
...
Master of the Queen’s Bench Division
Master of the Rolls
Ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal
President of the Courts of England and Wales
President of the Court of Protection,
President of the Family Division
President of the Queen's Bench Division
Presiding Judge for a Circuit
Puisne judge of the High Court
Queen’s Coroner and Attorney and Master of the Crown Office and Registrar of Criminal Appeals
Recorder
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Senior District Judge of the Family Division
Senior Judge of the Court of Protection,
Senior Master of the Queen’s Bench Division
Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales
Taxing Master of the Senior Courts
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Vice-president of the Court of Appeal
Vice-president of the Court of Protection.
Vice-president of the Queen’s Bench Division.
(2A) The Lord Chancellor may by order—
(a) alter the name of a relevant office;
(b) provide for or alter the way in which a relevant office is to be styled.
(2B) In subsection (2A) “a relevant office” is a sitting in retirement office under section 123 of the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 for which the corresponding original office is listed in Part 1 of Schedule 3 to that Act.
(3) The Lord Chancellor may also by order provide for or alter the way in which deputies or temporary additional officers appointed under section 91(1) of the 1981 Act are to be styled.
(3A) The Lord Chancellor may make an order under this section only with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice.
(4) Before making an order under this section the Lord Chancellor must consult—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) the Master of the Rolls,
(ba) the President of the Queen's Bench Division,
(c) the President of the Family Division, and
(d) the President of the Business and Property Division.
(5) An order under this section may make such provision as the Lord Chancellor considers necessary in consequence of any provision made under subsection (1) , (2A) or (3).
(6) The provision that may be made under subsection (5) includes provision amending, repealing or revoking any enactment.
(7) 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 this section.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/section/64 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/section-64
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