Crime and Courts Act 2013

Appointments by Her Majesty on Lord Chancellor’s recommendation but where selection is to be reported to Lord Chief Justice or Senior President of Tribunals

29 (1) Schedule 14 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Judicial Appointments Commission: relevant offices and enactments) is amended as follows.

(2) The table in Part 1 (appointments by Her Majesty on the Lord Chancellor’s recommendation) becomes Table 1 of that Part called “Appointments where the Commission reports to the Lord Chancellor”.

(3) Move the entries for the following offices from Table 1 of Part 1 to form Table 2 of that Part called “Appointments where the Commission reports to the Lord Chief Justice” (and with the same column headings)—

• Circuit judge

• Recorder

• Master, Queen’s Bench Division

• Queen’s Coroner and Attorney and Master of the Crown Office and Registrar of Criminal Appeals

• Admiralty Registrar

• Master, Chancery Division

• Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court

• Taxing Master of the Senior Courts

• District judge of the principal registry of the Family Division

• Senior Master of the Queen’s Bench Division

• Chief Chancery Master

• Chief Taxing Master

• Chief Bankruptcy Registrar

• Senior District Judge of the Family Division

• District judge

• District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) appointed under section 22(1) of the Courts Act 2003

• Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) designated under section 23 of that Act

• Deputy Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) designated under that section

(4) In Table 1 of Part 1 omit the entries for the following former offices—

• Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) designated under subsection (2) of section 10A of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997

• Deputy Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) designated under that subsection

(5) Move the entry for the following office from Table 1 of Part 1 to form Table 3 of that Part called “Appointments where the Commission reports to the Senior President of Tribunals” (and with the same column headings)—

• Judge of the Upper Tribunal by appointment under paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 3 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007