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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-supreme-court-judicial-appointments-regulations-2013/regulation-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In relation a reference in these Regulations to “the most senior ordinary judge”—\n(a) the seniority of the ordinary judges of the Supreme Court is to be determined according to length of service as a judge of the Court (including for this purpose service over one or more periods) and service as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary counts as service as a judge of the Court for this purpose; and\n(b) a person disqualified under regulation 16 or who resigns from membership of a selection commission under regulation 17 is to be disregarded in determining who is the most senior ordinary judge for the purposes of any provision of these Regulations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111100233/regulation/3",
    "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."
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