{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-magistrates-courts-authority-transitional-provisions-order-2000/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-magistrates-courts-authority-transitional-provisions-order-2000/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/240",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority (Transitional Provisions) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-magistrates-courts-authority-transitional-provisions-order-2000",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Appointment of justices' chief executive",
  "text": "(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after 1st March 2000, and in any case before the end of the transitional period, the Authority shall appoint a person to be the justices' chief executive for its area.\n(2) From the time of his appointment until the appointed day, the person appointed to be the justices' chief executive shall only have the following functions and powers—\n(a) to act as clerk to the Authority and its selection panel;\n(b) to assist the Authority in all its functions and powers as set out in article 4;\n(c) to make all necessary preparations for the assumption of his functions as justices' chief executive for the area of the Authority on the appointed day.\n(3) On the appointed day, the person appointed shall assume all the functions and powers of the justices' chief executive for the area of the Authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/240/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:43.130520+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."
}