{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-supreme-court-judicial-appointments-regulations-2013/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-supreme-court-judicial-appointments-regulations-2013/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111100233",
  "legislation_title": "The Supreme Court (Judicial Appointments) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-supreme-court-judicial-appointments-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "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 27 of the 2005 Act;\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) notify the selection;\n(b) reject the selection; or\n(c) require the selection commission to reconsider the selection.\n(3) At stage 2 the Lord Chancellor must do one of the following—\n(a) notify 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 commission 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 notify the selection, unless paragraph (5) applies and the Lord Chancellor makes a notification 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 notify that person’s name to the Prime Minister.\n(6) In this regulation references to the Lord Chancellor notifying a selection are references to the Lord Chancellor notifying to the Prime Minister the name of the person selected.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111100233/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:33.247813+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."
}