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Part 2 F1

England and Wales

OfficePersons qualified
Master, Queen's Bench DivisionA person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.
Queen's Coroner and Attorney and Master of the Crown Office and Registrar of Criminal AppealsA person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 7-year basis.
Admiralty RegistrarA person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.
F2Master, Business and Property Division A person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.
F3Insolvency and Companies Court Judge A person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.
Taxing Master of the Senior CourtsA person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.
District judge of the principal registry of the Family Division

1. A person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.

2. A district probate registrar who either—

  1. (a)

    is of at least 5 years' standing, or

  2. (b)

    has, during so much of the 5 years immediately preceding his appointment as he has not been a district probate registrar, served as a civil servant in the principal registry or a district probate registry.

3. A civil servant who has served at least 7 years in the principal registry or a district probate registry.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 2 substituted (21.7.2008) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), ss. 50, 148, Sch. 10 para. 13(3)-(5); S.I. 2008/1653, art. 2(d) (with arts. 3, 4)

F2

Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table substituted (1.10.2026) by The Senior Courts (Transfer, Amendment and Consequential Provision) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/723), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 12(5)

F3

Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table substituted (26.2.2018) by The Alteration of Judicial Titles (Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/130), art. 1, Sch. para. 6(b)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act: "The Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54) may be cited as the Senior Courts Act 1981" (1.10.2009) by virtue of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 1(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)

F2

Act: words substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 26(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)