Crime and Courts Act 2013

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6(1)Section 8 (deputy district judges) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1) (appointment to facilitate disposal of business in the county courts) for “courts” substitute “court or any other court or tribunal to which a person appointed under this subsection may be deployed”.

(3)Omit subsections (1B) and (1D) (which relate to the assignment of deputy district judges to county court districts).

(4)In subsection (1C) (deputy district judge to have powers of a district judge)—

(a)omit “and assigned to a district”,

(b)omit “, while acting under his assignment,”, and

(c)for “assigned to the district” substitute “other than a district judge’s power to act in a district registry of the High Court”.