{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industry-act-1975/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industry-act-1975/schedule-3/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/68",
  "legislation_title": "Industry Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industry-act-1975",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject, in the case of the president of a tribunal, to sub-paragraph (2) belowThe members of a tribunal shall hold office for such period as may be determined at the time of their respective appointments and shall be eligible for reappointment but, notwithstanding that the period for which a member was appointed has not expired,—\n(a) a member may, at any time by not less than one month’s notice in writing to his appointor, resign his office;\n(b) the appointor of a member may declare the office of that member vacant on the ground that he is unfit to continue in his office; and\n(c) if any member is the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order or an interim bankruptcy restrictions order, or a debt relief restrictions order or interim debt relief restrictions order under Schedule 4ZB of the Insolvency Act 1986 or, in Scotland, if sequestration of a member’s estate is awarded ..., his office shall thereupon become vacant.\n(2) No appointment of a person to be the president of a tribunal shall be such as to extend beyond the day on which he attains the age of 75.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 6 numbered as sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 52(1) (with Sch. 7 paras. 2(2), 3(2), 4); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 6(1) inserted (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 52(2) (with Sch. 7 paras. 2(2), 3(2), 4); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 6(1)(c) substituted (29.6.2006) by Enterprise Act 2002 (Disqualification from Office: General) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1722), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 1(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 6(1)(c) substituted (1.10.2012) by The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2404), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 9 (with arts. 5, 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 6(1)(c) omitted (29.6.2006) by virtue of Enterprise Act 2002 (Disqualification from Office: General) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1722), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 6(2) added (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 52(2) (with Sch. 7 paras. 2(2), 3(2), 4); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 para. 6(2) substituted (10.3.2022) by Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7), s. 131(1)(4)(a), Sch. 1 para. 13 (with Sch. 1 para. 43)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/68/schedule/3/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:36:00.414854+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."
}