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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-11/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/44",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An appointed member\n(a) may at any time resign his membership by notice in writing addressed to the Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State ; and\n(b) shall vacate his office on the day on which he attains the age of 70; but paragraph (b) is subject to section 26(4) to (6) of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of 75).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11 para. 2 inserted (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para.30 (with Sch. 7 paras. 2(2), 3(2), 4); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:21:43.542381+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."
}