{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courtsmartial-appeals-act-1951/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courtsmartial-appeals-act-1951/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14-15/46",
  "legislation_title": "Courts–Martial (Appeals) Act 1951",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courtsmartial-appeals-act-1951",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Assistants to Judge Advocate General.",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of assisting the Judge Advocate General in the exercise and performance of his powers and duties there shall be—\n(a) an officer to be known as the Vice Judge Advocate General, to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor; and\n(b) such number of officers to be known as Assistant Judge Advocates General . . . to be appointed . . . by the Lord Chancellor, as the Lord Chancellor, with the approval of the Treasury, may determine.\n(2) If at any time it appears to the Lord Chancellor that it is expedient that the Judge Advocate General should be temporarily assisted in the exercise and performance of his powers and duties by more persons than hold appointments by virtue of the foregoing subsection, the Lord Chancellor may appoint such persons temporarily to assist the Judge Advocate General in the exercise and performance of his powers and duties as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval of the Treasury as to numbers, determine.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1)(b) repealed (1.10.2001) by 2001 c. 19, ss. 34, 38, Sch. 6 Pt. 2 para. 5(a), Sch. 7 Pt. 3; S.I. 2001/3234, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1)(b) repealed (1.10.2001) by 2001 c. 19, ss. 34, 38, Sch. 6 Pt. 2 para. 5(b), Sch. 7 Pt. 3; S.I. 2001/3234, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 30(3)-(5) omitted (10.3.2022 for specified purposes, 1.10.2022 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7), s. 131(1)(4)(c), Sch. 4 para. 1; S.I. 2022/1014, reg. 2(d) (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14-15/46/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:12.618121+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."
}