{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appellate-jurisdiction-act-1876-repealed/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appellate-jurisdiction-act-1876-repealed/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/39-40/59",
  "legislation_title": "Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appellate-jurisdiction-act-1876-repealed",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Definitions: “high judicial office:” superior courts:",
  "text": "In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following expressions have the meaning herein-after respectively assigned to them; that is to say.\n“High judicial office” means any of the following offices: that is to say,\nThe office of ... Judge of one of Her Majesty’s superior courts of Great Britain and Ireland:\n“Superior courts of Great Britain and Ireland” means and includes,—\nAs to England, Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice and Her Majesty’s Court of Appeal, . . . ; and\nAs to Northern Ireland, Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland and Her Majesty’s Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland; and\nAs to Scotland, the Court of Session:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 25: words in the definition omitted (3.4.2006) by virtue of The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) (No.2) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1016), arts. 1, 2, Sch. 1 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Administration of Justice Act 1965 (c. 2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c.23, SIF 38), s. 122(1), Sch. 5 Pt. II (1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Definition in s. 25 applied (Provinces of Canterbury and York except C.I.and I.of M.) by Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991 (No. 1), S. 31(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Definition of “High judicial office” amended by Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1887 (c. 70), s. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Reference to Ireland to be construed as exclusive of Republic of Ireland: S.R. & O. 1923/405 (Rev. X, p. 298: 1923, p. 400), art. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/39-40/59/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:47:03.615104+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."
}