Courts Act 2003

64Power to alter judicial titlesE+W

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(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
F1...
[F2Chancellor of the High Court]
Circuit judge
Deputy Circuit judge
Deputy district judge appointed under section 102 of the 1981 Act
Deputy district judge [F3appointed under section 8 of the County Courts Act 1984]
[F4Deputy Head of Civil Justice]
[F5Deputy Head of Family Justice]
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
[F6Head of Civil Justice]
[F7Head of Family Justice]
Lord Chief Justice
Master of the Chancery Division
F8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Master of the Queen’s Bench Division
Master of the Rolls
Ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal
[F9President of the Courts of England and Wales]
[F10President of the Court of Protection,]
President of the Family Division
[F11President of the Queen's Bench 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
[F12Senior Judge of the Court of Protection,]
Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales
Taxing Master of the [F13Senior Courts]
F14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vice-president of the Court of Appeal
[F15Vice-president of the Court of Protection.]
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.

[F16(3A)The Lord Chancellor may make an order under this section only with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice.]

(4)Before making an order under this section the Lord Chancellor must consult—

(a)F17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)the Master of the Rolls,

[F18(ba)the President of the Queen's Bench Division,

(c)the President of the Family Division, and

(d)the Chancellor of the High Court.]

(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.

[F19(7)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.]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 64(2) omitted (15.7.2013) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 13 para. 89(2)(i); S.I. 2013/1725, art. 2(g)

F2Words in s. 64(2) inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 15, Sch. 4 para. 331(2)(b)(i); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(z)

F3Words in s. 64(2) substituted (19.7.2007) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, (c. 39), ss. 56, 148, {Sch. 11 para. 14}

F4Words in s. 64(2) inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 15, Sch. 4 para. 331(2)(b)(ii); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(z)

F5Words in s. 64(2) inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 15, Sch. 4 para. 331(2)(b)(iv); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(z)

F6Words in s. 64(2) inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 15, Sch. 4 para. 331(2)(b)(v); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(z)

F7Words in s. 64(2) inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 15, Sch. 4 para. 331(2)(b)(vii); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(z)

F8Words in s. 64(2) repealed (1.10.2007) by Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c. 9), ss. 67(1)(2), 68(1)-(3), Sch. 6 para. 47(3)(a), Sch. 7 (with ss. 27, 28, 29, 62); S.I. 2007/1897, art. 2(1)(d)