Constitutional Reform Act 2005

322 (1) Section 21 (duty to consult lay justices on matters affecting them etc) is amended as follows. U.K.

(2) That section becomes subsection (1) of section 21.

(3) In that subsection after “Lord Chancellor” insert “ and the Lord Chief Justice ”.

(4) After that subsection insert—

“(2) 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 this section.”