{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-constitution-order-2009/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-constitution-order-2009/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/442",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Constitution) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-constitution-order-2009",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Transitional arrangements in respect of the first chair of the new Council as constituted on 1st April 2009",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding article 8(1) to (3), the person who was chairman of the Council on 31st March 2009 shall, if reappointed to serve as a member of the Council from 1st April 2009, be appointed by the Privy Council to serve as the chair of the Council as constituted on 1st April 2009 for a term of four years.\n(2) As regards any person so appointed, notwithstanding article 3(3), for the purposes of the computation of years under article 3(2), service as a member of the Council before 1st April 2009 is to be discounted, unless before 1st April 2009 that person has served on the Council for more than six months.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 9 in force at 1.4.2009, see art. 1(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/442/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:17:01.341884+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."
}