Constitutional Reform Act 2005

173 (1) Section 36 (assignment of circuit judges to family proceedings) is amended as follows. U.K.

(2) That section becomes subsection (1) of section 36.

(3) In that subsection, for “Lord Chancellor may direct” substitute “ Lord Chief Justice may, after consulting the Lord Chancellor, direct ”.

(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.”