{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/23",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Retirement, removal and disqualifications of Circuit judge.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (4) below ... a Circuit judge shall vacate his office on the day on which he attains the age of 75.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The Lord Chancellor may, if he thinks fit and if the Lord Chief Justice agrees, remove a Circuit judge from office on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17(1) substituted (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 8(2); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(1) omitted (10.3.2022) by virtue of Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7), s. 131(1)(4)(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(2)(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 43)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 17(1) substituted (10.3.2022) by Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7), s. 131(1)(4)(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(2)(b) (with Sch. 1 para. 43)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 17(2)(3) repealed (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 8(3)(4), Sch.9; S.I. 1995/631, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(4) inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15, 148, Sch. 4 para. 68; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 17(5) repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24), Sch. 3 and Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 25), Sch. 3 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 17(6) repealed by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 125(7), Sch. 20"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:15.740722+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."
}