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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990/schedule-4/paragraph-31",
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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/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall send to each of the designated judges—\n(a) a copy of any written representations made under paragraph 30 and a note of any oral representations made under that paragraph; and\n(b) in a case where he is required to seek the advice of the Consultative Panel and the OFT, a copy of the advice given to him by the Consultative Panel and the OFTand of any representations made under paragraph 29.\n(2) Each of the designated judges shall then consider whether the Secretary of State should make the recommendation.\n(3) The Secretary of State and the authorised body shall provide each of the designated judges with such additional information as he may reasonably require.\n(4) When each of the designated judges has completed his consideration he shall give such advice to the Secretary of State as he thinks fit.",
  "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": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "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)"
    }
  ],
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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."
}