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]
[F3Chief Chancery Master]
[F3Chief Insolvency and Companies Court Judge]
[F3Chief Taxing Master]
Circuit judge
Deputy Circuit judge
Deputy district judge appointed under section 102 of the 1981 Act
Deputy district judge [F4appointed under section 8 of the County Courts Act 1984]
[F5Deputy Head of Civil Justice]
[F6Deputy Head of Family Justice]
Deputy judge of the High Court
[F7District judge of the county court]
District judge of the High Court
District judge of the principal registry of the Family Division
District probate registrar
[F8Head of Civil Justice]
[F9Head of Family Justice]
[F10Insolvency and Companies Court Judge]
Lord Chief Justice
Master of the Chancery Division
F11...
Master of the Queen’s Bench Division
Master of the Rolls
Ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal
[F12President of the Courts of England and Wales]
[F13President of the Court of Protection,]
President of the Family Division
[F14President 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
F15...
[F3Senior District Judge of the Family Division]
[F16Senior Judge of the Court of Protection,]
[F3Senior Master of the Queen’s Bench Division]
Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales
Taxing Master of the [F17Senior Courts]
F18...
Vice-president of the Court of Appeal
[F19Vice-president of the Court of Protection.]
Vice-president of the Queen’s Bench Division.

[F20(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 [F2191(1)] of the 1981 Act are to be styled.

[F22(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—

F23(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)the Master of the Rolls,

[F24(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) [F25, (2A)] or (3).

(6)The provision that may be made under subsection (5) includes provision amending, repealing or revoking any enactment.

[F26(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) inserted (20.2.2019) by Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (c. 33), ss. 2(3)(a), 4(2)

F4Words in s. 64(2) substituted (19.7.2007) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, (c. 39), ss. 56, 148, {Sch. 11 para. 14}

F5Words 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)

F6Words 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)

F7Words in s. 64(2) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 40(b); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)

F8Words 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)

F9Words 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)

F10Words in s. 64(2) inserted (26.2.2018) by The Alteration of Judicial Titles (Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/130), art. 1, Sch. para. 10(b)

F11Words 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)