# The Supreme Court (Judicial Appointments) Regulations 2013, Regulation 20: The Lord Chancellor’s options


(1) This regulation refers to the following stages—
(a) Stage 1 – where a person has been selected under section 27 of the 2005 Act;
(b) Stage 2 – where a person has been selected following a rejection or reconsideration at stage 1;
(c) Stage 3 – where a person has been selected following a rejection or reconsideration at stage 2.
(2) At stage 1 the Lord Chancellor must do one of the following—
(a) notify the selection;
(b) reject the selection; or
(c) require the selection commission to reconsider the selection.
(3) At stage 2 the Lord Chancellor must do one of the following—
(a) notify the selection;
(b) reject the selection, but only if it was made following a reconsideration at stage 1; or
(c) require the selection commission to reconsider the selection, but only if it was made following a rejection at stage 1.
(4) At stage 3 the Lord Chancellor must notify the selection, unless paragraph (5) applies and the Lord Chancellor makes a notification under it.
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111100233/regulation/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-supreme-court-judicial-appointments-regulations-2013/regulation-20
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