The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2006 No. 1537 (C. 55)

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 1537 (C. 55)

JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, NORTHERN IRELAND

The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2006

Made

13th June 2006

The Lord Chancellor makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 148 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005(1).

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2006.

Commencement of provisions of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005

2.  Paragraph 122(5) of Schedule 5 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 shall come into force on 15th June 2006, except in so far as it makes the office of General Commissioner for a division in Northern Ireland a listed judicial office for the purposes of sections 5 and 9B of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002(2);

3.  The following provisions of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 shall come into force on 25th September 2006—

(a) section 124 (Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Ombudsman);

(b) section 125 (complaints: interpretation), except in so far as it inserts a new section 9B(3)(b) into the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002;

(c) section 126 to 131 (complaints and references); and

(d) Schedule 15 (Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Ombudsman).

Falconer of Thoroton C.

Dated 13th June 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force the provisions of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4) listed in Articles 2 and 3.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Act have been brought into force by commencement orders made before the date of this Order:

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No.
Sections 1 to 3.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Section 5 (partially).	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Section 7.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Sections 9 and 10.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Section 11 (partially).	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Sections 12 and 13.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Section 14 (partially).	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Section 15 (partially).	31.08.2005 03.04.2006	2005/2284 2006/1014
Sections 16 and 17.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Sections 45 and 46.	27.02.2006	2006/228
Sections 61 to 64.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Section 65.	01.10.2005 03.04.2006	2005/2505 2006/1014
Section 66.	01.10.2005	2005/2505
Section 85 (partially)	01.10.2005 03.04.2006	2005/2505 2006/1014
Sections 86 to 114.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Sections 115 to 118.	01.10.2005 03.04.2006	2005/2505 2006/1014
Sections 119 to 122.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Section 123 (partially).	15.06.2005	2005/1431
Section 132.	15.06.2005	2005/1431
Section 133 to 136.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Section 139.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Section 145 (partially).	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Section 146 (partially).	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Schedules 1 and 2.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Schedule 3 (partially).	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Schedule 4 (partially).	01.10.2005 03.04.02006	2005/2505 2006/1014
Schedule 5 (partially).	31.08.2005 03.04.2006	2005/2284 2006/1014
Schedule 12.	01.10.2005 03.04.2006	2005/2505 2006/1014
Schedule 13.	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Schedule 14 (partially).	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Schedule 17 (partially).	03.04.2006	2006/1014
Schedule 18 (partially).	03.04.2006	2006/1014

The following provisions of the Act will be brought into force by a commencement order made before the date of this Order:

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No.
Sections 67 to 84.	02.10.2006	2006/1014
Section 85(1)(a).	02.04.2007	2006/1014

(1)

2005 c. 4.

(2)

2002 c. 26. Section 5 is amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004(c. 4) and section 9 B is inserted by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.