SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Other functions of the Lord Chancellor and organisation of the courts

Part 1Amendments

Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22)

280(1)Section 56 (power to prescribe alternative destination of appeals) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (4) for paragraphs (c) and (d) substitute—

“(c)the President of the Queen’s Bench Division,

(d)the President of the Family Division, and

(e)the Chancellor of the High Court.”

(3)After subsection (7) insert—

“(8)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.”