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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-terrorism-crime-and-security-act-2001/schedule-6/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2001/24",
  "legislation_title": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-terrorism-crime-and-security-act-2001",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Commission shall sit at such times and in such places as the Lord Chancellor may direct after consulting the following—\n(a) the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales;\n(b) the Lord President of the Court of Session;\n(c) the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.\n.\n(2) The Commission may sit in two or more divisions.\n(3) At each sitting of the Commission—\n(a) three members shall attend;\n(b) one of the members shall be a person who holds or has held high judicial office (within the meaning of Part 3 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) or is or has been a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; and\n(c) the chairman or another member nominated by him shall preside and report the Commission’s decision.\n(4) The Lord Chief Justice may nominate a judicial office holder (as defined in section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) to exercise his functions under sub-paragraph (1).\n(5) The Lord President of the Court of Session may nominate a judge of the Court of Session who is a member of the First or Second Division of the Inner House of that Court to exercise his functions under sub-paragraph (1).\n(6) The Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland may nominate any of the following to exercise his functions under sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) the holder of one of the offices listed in Schedule 1 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002;\n(b) a Lord Justice of Appeal (as defined in section 88 of that Act).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 4(1) inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15, 148, Sch. 4 para. 300(2); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 4(3)(b) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 17 para. 31; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 4(4)-(6) inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15, 148, Sch. 4 para. 300(3); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(x)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/24/schedule/6/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:53.658662+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."
}