Valid from 26/01/2004
64Power to alter judicial titlesE+W
(1)The Lord Chancellor may by order—
(a)alter the name of an office listed in subsection (2);
(b)provide for or alter the way in which the holders of any of those offices are to be styled.
(2)The offices are—
Admiralty Registrar
Assistant Recorder
Circuit judge
Deputy Circuit judge
Deputy district judge appointed under section 102 of the 1981 Act
Deputy district judge for a county court district
Deputy judge of the High Court
District judge for a county court district
District judge of the High Court
District judge of the principal registry of the Family Division
District probate registrar
Lord Chief Justice
Master of the Chancery Division
Master of the Court of Protection
Master of the Queen’s Bench Division
Master of the Rolls
Ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal
President of the Family Division
Presiding Judge for a Circuit
Puisne judge of the High Court
Queen’s Coroner and Attorney and Master of the Crown Office and Registrar of Criminal Appeals
Recorder
Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court
Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales
Taxing Master of the Supreme Court
Vice-Chancellor
Vice-president of the Court of Appeal
Vice-president of the Queen’s Bench Division.
(3)The Lord Chancellor may also by order provide for or alter the way in which deputies or temporary additional officers appointed under section 91(1)(a) of the 1981 Act are to be styled.
(4)Before making an order under this section the Lord Chancellor must consult—
(a)the Lord Chief Justice,
(b)the Master of the Rolls,
(c)the President of the Family Division, and
(d)the Vice-Chancellor.
(5)An order under this section may make such provision as the Lord Chancellor considers necessary in consequence of any provision made under subsection (1) or (3).
(6)The provision that may be made under subsection (5) includes provision amending, repealing or revoking any enactment.