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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/section/21</dc:identifier><dc:title>Crime and Courts Act 2013</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to establish, and make provision about, the National Crime Agency; to abolish the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the National Policing Improvement Agency; to make provision about the judiciary and the structure, administration, proceedings and powers of courts and tribunals; to make provision about deferred prosecution agreements; to make provision about border control; to make provision about drugs and driving; and for connected purposes.</dc:description><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2026-01-08</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2026-01-05</dct:valid>
					
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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/body" NumberOfProvisions="85" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." RestrictStartDate="2024-07-24"><Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/part/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/part/2" NumberOfProvisions="56" id="part-2" RestrictStartDate="2024-07-24"><Number><Strong>Part 2</Strong></Number><Title>Courts and Justice</Title><Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/part/2/crossheading/administration-of-justice" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/part/2/crossheading/administration-of-justice" NumberOfProvisions="30" id="part-2-crossheading-administration-of-justice" RestrictStartDate="2023-02-07"><Title><Emphasis>Administration of justice</Emphasis></Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2013-10-01"><Title>Deployment of the judiciary</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/section/21" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/section/21" id="section-21"><Pnumber PuncAfter=""><CommentaryRef Ref="key-d02169dd6683eb5b47b667e221f14263"/>21</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/1" id="section-21-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>The Lord Chief Justice's deployment responsibility includes (so far as it would not otherwise do so, and subject to having regard to the responsibilities of the Senior President of Tribunals) responsibility for the maintenance of appropriate arrangements for—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/1/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/1/a" id="section-21-1-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the deployment to tribunals of judiciary deployable to tribunals, and</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/1/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/1/b" id="section-21-1-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the deployment to courts in England and Wales of judiciary deployable to such courts.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/2" id="section-21-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>In subsection (1)  “<Term id="term-the-lord-chief-justices-deployment-responsibility">the Lord Chief Justice's deployment responsibility</Term>” means the responsibility that the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, as President of the Courts of England and Wales, has under section 7(2)(c) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 for the maintenance of appropriate arrangements for the deployment of the judiciary of England and Wales.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/3" id="section-21-3"><Pnumber>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Each of the following is a tribunal for the purposes of subsection (1)(a)—</Text><UnorderedList Decoration="none"><ListItem><Para><Text>the Upper Tribunal,</Text></Para></ListItem><ListItem><Para><Text>the First-tier Tribunal,</Text></Para></ListItem><ListItem><Para><Text>the Employment Appeal Tribunal, and</Text></Para></ListItem><ListItem><Para><Text>an employment tribunal in England and Wales.</Text></Para></ListItem></UnorderedList></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2013/22/section/21/4" id="section-21-4"><Pnumber>4</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Schedule 14 (which makes provision for deployment of judiciary to courts and tribunals, and updates references to chairmen of employment tribunals following their being renamed as Employment Judges) has effect.</Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Pblock></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="key-d02169dd6683eb5b47b667e221f14263" Type="I"><Para><Text>S. 21 in force at 1.10.2013  by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2013/2200" id="cyy30efa1-00090" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2013" Number="2200" Title="The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2013">S.I. 2013/2200</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="cyy30efa1-00091" CitationRef="cyy30efa1-00090" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2013/2200/article/3/b" SectionRef="article-3-b" Operative="true">art. 3(b)</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>