SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 10 Judicial and other Appointments
Master, Registrar etc
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For Schedule 2 to that Act (which sets out the persons eligible for appointment to certain offices in the Supreme Court) there shall be substituted—
Schedule 2 List of Offices in Supreme Court for Purposes of Part IV
References in this Schedule to a person having a general qualification shall be construed in accordance with section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990.
Part I
1.Office
2.Persons qualified
1. Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.
1.—(1) A person who has a 10 year general qualification.(2) A civil servant who has served at least 5 years in the Lord Chancellor’s Department.
2. Official Solicitor.
2. A person who has a 10 year general qualification.
Part II
1.Office
2.Persons qualified
3. Master, Queen’s Bench Division.
3. A person who has a 7 year general qualification.
4. Queen’s Coroner and Attorney and Master of the Crown Office and Registrar of Criminal Appeals.
4. A person who has a 10 year general qualification.
5. Admiralty Registrar.
5. A person who has a 7 year general qualification.
6. Master, Chancery Division.
6. A person who has a 7 year general qualification.
7. Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court.
7. A person who has a 7 year general qualification.
8. Taxing Master of the Supreme Court.
8. A person who has a 7 year general qualification.
9. District judge of the principal registry of the Family Division.
9.—(1) A person who has a 7 year general qualification.(2) A district probate registrar who either— (a) is of at least 5 years’ standing; or (b) has, during so much of the 10 years immediately preceding his appointment as he has not been a district probate registrar, served as a civil servant in the principal registry or a district probate registry.(3) A civil servant who has served at least 10 years in the principal registry or a district probate registry.
10. Registrar of Civil Appeals.
10. A person who has a 10 year general qualification.
11. Master of the Court of Protection.
11. A person who has a 7 year general qualification.
Part III
1.Office
2.Persons qualified
12. District probate registrar.
12.—(1) A person who has a 5 year general qualification.(2) A civil servant who has served at least 5 years in the principal registry of the Family Division or a district probate registry.