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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bank-of-england-act-1998/schedule-6A/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/11",
  "legislation_title": "Bank of England Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bank-of-england-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/6A/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If it appears to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that in the circumstances it is desirable to do so, the Chancellor may, before the end of the term for which a person is appointed as a member of the Committee under section 30A(2)(g), extend the person's term of office on one occasion for a specified period of not more than 6 months.\n(2) The term being extended may be the person's first or second term or, in a case where paragraph 4(2) allows a third term, the person's third term.\n(3) If a person whose first term of office is extended is subsequently re-appointed under section 30A(2)(g)—\n(a) the length of the second term is to be reduced by a period equal to the extension of the first term, but\n(b) the second term may itself be extended under sub-paragraph (1).\n(4) In a case where a person's second term of office is extended and paragraph 4(2) allows a third term, sub-paragraph (3) is to be read as if the references to first and second terms were references to second and third terms respectively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6A inserted (1.3.2017) by Bank of England and Financial Services Act 2016 (c. 14), s. 41(3), Sch. 1 (with Sch. 3); S.I. 2017/43, reg. 2(d)"
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      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/14",
      "affecting_title": "Bank of England and Financial Services Act 2016"
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  "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."
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