{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/section-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/section-54.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/23",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971",
  "path": "section/54",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Boroughs: honorary offices.",
  "text": "(1) The council of a borough shall have power to appoint a person to be honorary recorder of the borough.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) A person shall not be qualified to hold office as an honorary recorder of a borough . . . unless he is a Circuit judge or Recorder (that is to say a Recorder appointed under this Act):\nProvided that this subsection shall not apply to a borough which immediately before the appointed day—\n(a) had power by charter to appoint a recorder of the borough, and\n(b) did not have a separate court of quarter sessions.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 54(2)(4) repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/54",
    "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."
}