{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007/section-144",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007/section-144.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/15",
  "legislation_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007",
  "path": "section/144",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "144",
  "heading": "Protected functions of the Lord Chancellor",
  "text": "(1) In Schedule 7 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4) (protected functions of the Lord Chancellor) Part A of the list in paragraph 4 is amended as follows.\n(2) In the entry for the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939 (c. xcvii) after “109(2)” insert “ and (4) ”.\n(3) Insert in the appropriate place—\n“Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (c. 32)\nSection 6A\nSection 15B\nSchedule 3A”.\n(4) Insert in the appropriate place—\n“Charging Orders Act 1979 (c. 53)\nSection 3A”.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) In the entries for the County Courts Act 1984 (c. 28) insert in the appropriate place—\n“Section 85(2)\nPart 6\nPart 6A”.\n(7) In the entry for section 26(5), (6) and (9) of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (c. 8), for “and (9)” substitute\n“, (9) and (13)”.\n(8) In the entries for the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (c. 17) insert in the appropriate place—\n“Section 5A\nSection 7A”\n“Section 29A”.\n(9) In the entry for the Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14) insert in the appropriate place—\n“Section 7(6A)”.\n(10) In the entries for the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41)—\n(a) insert in the appropriate place—\n“Section 107”;\n(b) in the entry for Schedule 4, for “and 7” substitute “ , 7 and 14 ”.\n(11) Insert in the appropriate place—\n“Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007\nPart 1\nSection 51\nPart 3\nSections 95 to 102”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 144(5) omitted (1.10.2013) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 13 para. 35(7); S.I. 2013/2200, art. 3(e) (with savings in S.I. 2013/2192, regs. 48, 49)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 144 partly in force; s. 144 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 148; s. 144(1)(5)(7) in force at 19.9.2007 by S.I. 2007/2709, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/15/section/144",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:45.892078+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."
}