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Article 17 Hearing and disposal of appeal

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

(1)

An appeal shall not be heard and determined by the House of Lords unless there are present at least three of the persons designated Lords of Appeal by section 5 of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876f1.

(2)

Any order of the House of Lords which provides for the hearing of applications for leave to appeal by a committee constituted in accordance with section 5 of that Act may direct that the decision of that committee shall be taken on behalf of the House.

(3)

For the purposes of disposing of an appeal, the House of Lords may exercise any powers of the Court of Appeal or may remit the case to the Court.

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Footnotes

f1

1876 c. 59. Section 5 has been prospectively repealed by sections 145 and 146 of, and paragraph 9 of Part 2 of Schedule 17 and Part 5 of Schedule 18 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.