325(1)Section 25 (District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) as justices of the peace) is amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In subsection (2), leave out “or on behalf of the Lord Chancellor” and insert “ the Lord Chief Justice, after consulting the Lord Chancellor ”.
(3)After subsection (2) insert—
“(3)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 subsection (2).”