{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cayman-islands-constitution-order-2009/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cayman-islands-constitution-order-2009/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1379",
  "legislation_title": "The Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cayman-islands-constitution-order-2009",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Existing offices and officers",
  "text": "(1) Any office (except that of Chief Secretary) established by or under the former Constitution and existing immediately before the appointed day shall on and after that day, so far as is consistent with the Constitution, continue as if it had been established by or under the Constitution.\n(2) Any person who immediately before the appointed day holds or is acting in any office continued by virtue of subsection (1) shall, on and after that day, continue to hold or act in that office as if he or she had been appointed to hold or act in it in accordance with or under the Constitution.\n(3) Any person to whom subsection (2) applies who, before the appointed day, has made any oath required to be made before assuming the functions of his or her office shall be deemed to have made any like oath so required by the Constitution or any other law.\n(4) The person who, immediately before the appointed day, holds the office of Leader of Government Business shall, on and after that day, hold the office of Premier in accordance with the Constitution.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1379/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:11:20.423553+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."
}