Constitutional Reform Act 2005
Scotland and Northern Ireland
Appointments
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Provision
- 97
- Source language
- English
- Recorded status
- in force
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- Recorded status
- in force
Provision text
Official source1 Subsections (2) and (3) apply to consultation that a person is required to undertake under any of these provisions— a section 87(2); b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . d section 95(2)(b) or (c), e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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. 4 Subsections (2) and (3) apply to the reference in section ... 95(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. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Constitutional Reform Act 2005 · legislation.gov.uk · Retrieved 17 August 2026.
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