Part 4Judicial appointments and discipline

Chapter 2Appointments

Supplementary provisions about selection

97Scotland and Northern Ireland

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F1Subsections (2) and (3) apply to consultation that a person is required to undertake under any of these provisions—

a

section 87(2);

F4b

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F4c

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F7ca

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d

section F595(2)(b) or (c),

F6e

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2

If the consultation appears to that person to relate to the appointment (or a recommendation for the appointment) of a person to exercise functions wholly or mainly in Scotland, any reference in the provision to the Lord Chief Justice is to be read as a reference to the Lord President of the Court of Session.

3

If the consultation appears to that person to relate to the appointment (or a recommendation for the appointment) of a person to exercise functions wholly or mainly in Northern Ireland, any reference in the provision to the Lord Chief Justice is to be read as a reference to the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.

F24

Subsections (2) and (3) apply to the reference in section F8... F395(2)(a) to the Lord Chancellor obtaining the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice as they apply to a reference in a provision specified in subsection (1) to the Lord Chancellor consulting the Lord Chief Justice.

F95

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F96

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