Crime and Courts Act 2013

Transfer of appointment powers to Lord Chief Justice: further provisions

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

(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