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
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[Chancellor of the High Court]
[Chief Chancery Master]
[Chief Insolvency and Companies Court Judge]
[Chief Taxing Master]
Circuit judge
Deputy Circuit judge
Deputy district judge appointed under section 102 of the 1981 Act
Deputy district judge [appointed under section 8 of the County Courts Act 1984]
[Deputy Head of Civil Justice]
[Deputy Head of Family Justice]
Deputy judge of the High Court
[District judge of the county court]
District judge of the High Court
District judge of the principal registry of the Family Division
District probate registrar
[Head of Civil Justice]
[Head of Family Justice]
[Insolvency and Companies Court Judge]
Lord Chief Justice
Master of the Chancery Division
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Master of the Queen’s Bench Division
Master of the Rolls
Ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal
[President of the Courts of England and Wales]
[President of the Court of Protection,]
President of the Family Division
[President 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
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[Senior District Judge of the Family Division]
[Senior Judge of the Court of Protection,]
[Senior Master of the Queen’s Bench Division]
Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales
Taxing Master of the [Senior Courts]
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Vice-president of the Court of Appeal
[Vice-president of the Court of Protection.]
Vice-president of the Queen’s Bench Division.
[(2A)The Lord Chancellor may by order—
(a)alter the name of a relevant office;
(b)provide for or alter the way in which a relevant office is to be styled.
(2B)In subsection (2A) “a relevant office” is a sitting in retirement office under section 123 of the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 for which the corresponding original office is listed in Part 1 of Schedule 3 to that Act.]
(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)] of the 1981 Act are to be styled.
[(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). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b)the Master of the Rolls,
[(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) [, (2A)] or (3).
(6)The provision that may be made under subsection (5) includes provision amending, repealing or revoking any enactment.
[(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.]