Crime and Courts Act 2013

Recommended appointments: further provisions

32 (1) Section 21 of the Courts Act 1971 (appointment of Recorders) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (5) (neither initial term nor extension under subsection (4) may extend appointment beyond judicial retirement age) for “(4)” substitute “(4A)”.

(3) After subsection (7) insert—

“(8) Subject to the preceding provisions of this section, a person appointed under this section is to hold and vacate office as a Recorder in accordance with the terms of the person’s appointment, and those terms (including the terms specified under subsection (3)) are (subject to subsection (4)) to be such as the Lord Chancellor may determine.

(9) The Lord Chief Justice may nominate a senior judge (as defined in section 109(5) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) to exercise functions of the Lord Chief Justice under subsection (4) or (4C).”

(4) In list A in paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (protected functions of Lord Chancellor) in the entries for the Courts Act 1971 for “Section 21(2), (4) and (7)” substitute “Section 21”.