SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13U.K.Judicial appointments

Part 4U.K.Judicial appointments: selection, and transfer of powers of Lord Chancellor

Transfer of appointment powers to Lord Chief Justice: further provisionsU.K.

41(1)Schedule 14 to that Act (Judicial Appointments Commission: relevant offices and enactments) is amended as follows.U.K.

(2)For the title of Part 2 substitute “Court-related appointments”.

(3)The table in Part 2 (appointments by the Lord Chancellor) becomes Table 1 of that Part called “ Appointments by the Lord Chancellor ”.

(4)Move the entries for the following offices from Table 1 of Part 2 to form Table 2 of that Part called “Appointments by the Lord Chief Justice” (and with the same column headings)—

  • Person appointed by the Lord Chancellor as a deputy for a holder of, or as a temporary additional officer in, an office listed in column 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the Senior Courts Act 1981

  • Deputy district judge appointed under section 102(1) of that Act

  • Deputy district judge appointed under section 8(1) of the County Courts Act 1984

  • Justice of the Peace appointed under section 10(1) of the Courts Act 2003 (justices of the peace other than District Judges (Magistrates' Courts))

  • Deputy District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) appointed under section 24(1) of the Courts Act 2003

(5)In Table 2 of Part 2, in the first of the entries moved by this paragraph to form that table, omit “by the Lord Chancellor”.

(6)In Table 1 of Part 2 omit the entry for the following former office—

Justice of the Peace appointed under section 5 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997