21Deployment of the judiciaryU.K.
(1)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—
(a)the deployment to tribunals of judiciary deployable to tribunals, and
(b)the deployment to courts in England and Wales of judiciary deployable to such courts.
(2)In subsection (1) “the Lord Chief Justice's deployment responsibility” 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.
(3)Each of the following is a tribunal for the purposes of subsection (1)(a)—
the Upper Tribunal,
the First-tier Tribunal,
the Employment Appeal Tribunal, and
an employment tribunal in England and Wales.
(4)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.
Commencement Information
I1S. 21 in force at 1.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/2200, art. 3(b)