299.Section 55 modifies section 24 of the Courts Act 1971 (as previously modified by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) so that the responsibility for appointing as a deputy circuit judge someone who has previously held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court, or as a circuit judge, is vested in the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, rather than the other way round.
Part 2: Judicial Appointments Schedule 10: Amendments relating to judicial appointments Section 55: Appointment of deputy Circuit Judge