{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-appointments-regulations-2013/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-appointments-regulations-2013/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111100219",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Appointments Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-appointments-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "The Lord Chancellor’s options",
  "text": "(1) This regulation refers to the following stages—\n(a) Stage 1 – where a person has been selected under section 70(2) for appointment as Lord Chief Justice.\n(b) Stage 2 – where a person has been selected following a rejection or reconsideration at stage 1.\n(c) Stage 3 where a person has been selected following a rejection or reconsideration at stage 2.\n(2) At stage 1 the Lord Chancellor must do one of the following—\n(a) accept the selection;\n(b) reject the selection; or\n(c) require the selection panel to reconsider the selection.\n(3) At stage 2 the Lord Chancellor must do one of the following—\n(a) accept the selection;\n(b) reject the selection, but only if it was made following a reconsideration at stage 1; or\n(c) require the selection panel to reconsider the selection, but only if it was made following a rejection at stage 1.\n(4) At stage 3 the Lord Chancellor must accept the selection, unless subsection (5) applies and the Lord Chancellor accepts a selection under it.\n(5) If a person whose selection the Lord Chancellor required to be reconsidered at stage 1 or 2 was not selected again at the next stage, the Lord Chancellor may, at stage 3, accept the selection made at that earlier stage.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111100219/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:33.752299+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."
}