SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 18 U.K. Amendments relating to Article 15(1) to (4) etc

PART 1 U.K. Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 U.K.

62.  In section 9F(1) (procedure for reports by Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Ombudsman)— U.K.

(a) for subsection (2)(a) and (b) substitute—

“(a) if the complaint was a Commission complaint, to the First Minister and deputy First Minister and to the Commission;

(b) otherwise, to the Lord Chancellor.”;

(b) in subsection (3)(a) for the words from “by the Lord Chancellor” to the end substitute

“for changes in the draft report which is made—

(i) if the complaint was a Commission complaint, by the First Minister and deputy First Minister acting jointly or by the Commission;

(ii) otherwise, by the Lord Chancellor;”;

(c) in subsection (5) for “Lord Chancellor and” substitute “First Minister and deputy First Minister and to”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 18 para. 62 in force at 12.4.2010, see art. 1(2)

(1)

Section 9F was inserted by section 129 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4).