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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/schedule-8/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/25",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Lord Chief Justice may appoint a person as the Chief Coroner.\n(2) To be eligible for appointment as the Chief Coroner a person must be—\n(a) a judge of the High Court or a Circuit judge, and\n(b) under the age of 75.\n(3) The Lord Chief Justice must consult the Lord Chancellor before making an appointment under this paragraph.\n(4) The appointment of a person as the Chief Coroner is to be for a term decided by the Lord Chief Justice after consulting the Lord Chancellor.\n(5) In this paragraph “appointment” includes re-appointment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 8 para. 1(2)(b) substituted (10.3.2022) by Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7), s. 131(1)(4)(a), Sch. 1 para. 38(4)(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 43)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "By Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7), Sch. 1 para. 38(4)(b), it is provided that (10.3.2022) the word “75” is substituted for “70”"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 1 in force at 1.2.2010 by S.I. 2010/145, art. 2(2), Sch. para. 21"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/25/schedule/8/paragraph/1",
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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."
}