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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/constitutional-reform-act-2005/section-137A",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/4",
  "legislation_title": "Constitutional Reform Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/constitutional-reform-act-2005",
  "path": "section/137A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "137A",
  "heading": "Encouragement of diversity",
  "text": "Each of the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales must take such steps as that office-holder considers appropriate for the purpose of encouraging judicial diversity.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 137A inserted (15.7.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 13 para. 11; S.I. 2013/1725, art. 2(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/4/section/137A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:37.085861+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."
}