Constitutional Reform Act 2005

232 (1) Section 23 of the Welsh Language Act 1993 (oaths and affirmations) is amended as follows. U.K.

(2) That section becomes subsection (1) of section 23.

(3) In that subsection after “Lord Chancellor may” insert “ , after consulting the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, ”.

(4) After that subsection insert—

“(2) 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.”