Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43)
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100(1)Section 3B (transfer of trials of summary offences) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (3) for “Lord Chancellor may” substitute “Lord Chief Justice may, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor,”.
(3)After subsection (4) insert—
“(5)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 subsection (3).”