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Constitutional Reform Act 2005

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(1)This section refers to the following stages—

Stage 1:where a person has been selected under section 27
Stage 2:where a person has been selected following a rejection or reconsideration at stage 1
Stage 3:where a person has been selected following a rejection or reconsideration at stage 2.

(2)At stage 1 the Lord Chancellor must do one of the following—

(a)notify the selection;

(b)reject the selection;

(c)require the commission to reconsider the selection.

(3)At stage 2 the Lord Chancellor must do one of the following—

(a)notify the selection;

(b)reject the selection, but only if it was made following a reconsideration at stage 1;

(c)require the commission to reconsider the selection, but only if it was made following a rejection at stage 1.

(4)At stage 3 the Lord Chancellor must notify the selection, unless subsection (5) applies and he makes a notification under it.

(5)If a person whose selection the Lord Chancellor required to be reconsidered at stage 1 or 2 was not selected again at the next stage, the Lord Chancellor may at stage 3 notify that person’s name to the Prime Minister.

(6)In this Part references to the Lord Chancellor notifying a selection are references to his notifying to the Prime Minister the name of the person selected.

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