{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-constitution-metropolitan-area-rules-1991/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-constitution-metropolitan-area-rules-1991/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1426",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution) (Metropolitan Area) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-constitution-metropolitan-area-rules-1991",
  "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 metropolitan area;\n(b) he has acted as a justice for a minimum period of one year;\n(c) he has indicated that he is willing to serve as a member of the panel and, where he is nominated for a term commencing on 14th October 1991, has undertaken that he intends to serve as a member of the panel for the full term specified in rule 4(2) above; 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 a family proceedings court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1426/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:32.179070+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."
}