{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-northern-ireland-1959/section-103",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-northern-ireland-1959/section-103.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1959/25",
  "legislation_title": "County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-northern-ireland-1959",
  "path": "section/103",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "103",
  "heading": "Qualifications and disqualifications of judges.",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not be qualified to be appointed a judge [ unless he is—\n(a) a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland of at least ten years' standing; or\n(b) a solicitor of theCourt of Judicature of at least ten years' standing.\n(2) A judge, so long as he holds office as such, shall not practise at the bar or be directly or indirectly concerned as a conveyancer, notary public or solicitor.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1978 c. 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "2002 c. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 103(1)(b) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59(5), 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1959/25/section/103",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:09.633949+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."
}