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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-audit-investigations-and-community-enterprise-act-2004/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/27",
  "legislation_title": "Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004",
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  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The period for which a person is appointed as Regulator must not exceed five years.\n(2) A person who has held office as Regulator may be re-appointed, once only, for a further period not exceeding five years.\n(3) The Regulator may at any time resign the office by giving notice in writing to the Secretary of State.\n(4) The Secretary of State may at any time remove the Regulator on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour.\n(5) Subject to that, the Regulator holds and vacates office on the terms determined by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 1.1.2005 by S.I. 2004/3322, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:59.566027+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."
}