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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990/schedule-4/paragraph-23",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/41",
  "legislation_title": "Courts and Legal Services Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) After considering—\n(a) the advice given by the Consultative Panel and any representations made about it;\n(b) the advice given by the OFT and any representations made about it; and\n(c) the advice given by each of the designated judges under paragraph 22,\nthe Secretary of State shall decide whether to make the alterations.\n(2) When the Secretary of State has made his decision he shall notify the authorised body of it.\n(3) If the Secretary of State has decided to make the alterations he shall also notify the authorised body of the reasons for his decision.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 substituted (1.1.2000) by 1999 c.22, s. 41, Sch. 5 para. 2 (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 1999/3344, art. 2(a) (subject to art. 4, Sch. 2 of that S.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4: \"OFT\" substituted (1.4.2003) in each place for \"Director\" by 2002 c. 40, ss. 278, 279, Sch. 25 para. 23(10)(a); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Schs. 3-6 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), art. 9, Sch. 2 para. 8(1)(d) (with arts. 6, 8)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:54.699974+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."
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