{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-appointments-commission-regulations-2013/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111100202",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Appointments Commission Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-appointments-commission-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Composition of the Commission",
  "text": "(1) Of the 14 other Commissioners—\n(a) 7 must be holders of judicial office,\n(b) 5 must be lay members, and\n(c) 2 must be persons practising or employed as lawyers.\n(2) Of the 7 Commissioners who are appointed as holders of judicial office—\n(a) 1 must be a Lord Justice of Appeal;\n(b) 1 must be a puisne judge of the High Court;\n(c) 1 must be a senior tribunal office-holder member;\n(d) 1 must be a circuit judge;\n(e) 1 must be a district judge of a county court, a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) or a person appointed to an office under section 89 of the Senior Courts Act 1981;\n(f) 1 must be a holder of an office listed in paragraph (3);\n(g) 1 must be a non-legally qualified judicial member.\n(3) The offices referred to in paragraph (2)(f) are—\n(a) judge of the First-tier Tribunal appointed under paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007;\n(b) transferred-in judge of the First-tier Tribunal (see section 31(2) of that Act);\n(c) Regional Employment Judge appointed under regulation 6(1) of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004;\n(d) Employment Judge (England and Wales) appointed under regulation 8(1) and (3)(a) of those Regulations.\n(4) Of the 2 Commissioners appointed who are persons practising or employed as lawyers—\n(a) each person must hold a qualification listed in paragraph (5),\n(b) but they must not hold the same qualification as each other.\n(5) The qualifications referred to in paragraph (4) are—\n(a) barrister in England and Wales;\n(b) solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales;\n(c) fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c.54; section 89 was amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), Schedule 3, paragraph 3 and by Schedule 11, paragraph 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2007 c.15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2007 c.15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/1861, amended by S.I. 2008/2683."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/1861, amended by S.I. 2008/2683 and 2008/3240."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111100202/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:34.521286+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."
}