{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1985/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/61",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Council shall prepare a scheme making provision as to—\n(a) the appointment of persons for the purposes of paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 2(1);\n(b) the appointment of a person as chairman under paragraph 2(2); and\n(c) the tenure and vacation of office of persons appointed as aforesaid, and the eligibility of persons for appointment.\n(2) A scheme under this paragraph shall secure that (except during any casual vacancy) the total number of persons appointed for the purposes of paragraph (b) of paragraph 2(1) exceeds ... the total number of persons appointed for the purposes of paragraph (a) of that provision.\n(3) A scheme under this paragraph shall not come into force until it has been approved by the Legal Services Board.\n(4) The Legal Services Board may approve a scheme under this paragraph either as submitted to it or subject to such modifications as it thinks fit; but where the Legal Services Board proposes to approve a scheme subject to modifications it shall notify the modifications to the Council and consider any observations of the Council on them.\n(5) A scheme under this paragraph may be varied or revoked by any subsequent such scheme.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 4(1) substituted (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 29(6)(a), (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 4(1) substituted (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 29(6)(b), (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 4(1) substituted (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 29(6)(c), (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 4(2) substituted (30.9.2011) by The Legal Services Act 2007 (The Law Society and The Council for Licensed Conveyancers) (Modification of Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1716), arts. 2(3), 9(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 4(2) omitted (29.6.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(6)(c), Sch. 20 para. 9; S.I. 2015/1402, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 4(3) substituted (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 29(8), (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 4(4) substituted (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 29(9)(a), (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 para. 4(4) substituted (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 29(9)(b), (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 4(4) substituted (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 29(9)(c), (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(c)(i)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/61/schedule/3/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:54.512365+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}