268(1)Section 6 (Civil Justice Council) is amended as follows.U.K.
(2)After subsection (2) insert—
“(2A)The Lord Chancellor must decide the following questions, after consulting the Lord Chief Justice—
(a)how many members of the Council are to be drawn from each of the groups mentioned in subsection (2);
(b)how many other members the Council is to have.
(2B)It is for—
(a)the Lord Chief Justice to appoint members of the judiciary to the Council, after consulting the Lord Chancellor;
(b)the Lord Chancellor to appoint other persons to the Council.”
(3)After subsection (4) insert—
“(5)The Lord Chief Justice may nominate a judicial office holder (as defined in section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) to exercise his functions under this section.”