{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1971/schedule-5/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1971/schedule-5/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/77",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1971",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "There shall be such number of adjudicators as the Lord Chancellor may with the consent of the Treasury determine, and the Lord Chancellor shall appoint one of them as chief adjudicator.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1987/465, arts. 2(c), 3(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I.1980/1670, arts. 2(1)(c)(2), 3(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 paras. 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 15, 16 by S.I. 1987/465, arts. 2(c), 3(1)(3) the functions of the Secretary of State are transferred to the Lord Chancellor"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}