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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-constitution-greater-london-rules-2003/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-constitution-greater-london-rules-2003/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2960",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution) (Greater London) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-constitution-greater-london-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Eligibility and removal",
  "text": "(1) A justice shall not be nominated to the panel unless—\n(a) he is a justice who acts for the Greater London area;\n(b) he has acted as a justice for a minimum period of two years;\n(c) he has indicated that he is willing to serve as a member of the panel; and\n(d) he is suitable, in the opinion of the Lord Chancellor, to serve as a member of the panel.\n(2) A justice shall be eligible for nomination to the panel whether or not he—\n(a) has been a member of the panel before, or\n(b) is, or has been, a member of any other panel.\n(3) The Lord Chancellor may remove from the panel any justice who, in his opinion, is unsuitable to serve on the panel.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "rule 5(3) substituted for rule (3)(4)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2960/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:44:43.887317+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."
}