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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inner-london-juvenile-courts-selection-of-chairmen-order-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1265",
  "legislation_title": "The Inner London Juvenile Courts (Selection of Chairmen) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inner-london-juvenile-courts-selection-of-chairmen-order-1990",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\n1 This Order places on a statutory footing for the first time the process for selecting chairmen of juvenile courts in the inner London area. The new process follows, with minor modifications, the non-statutory process which has been in use for the past five years.\n2 Article 3 prescribes the four qualifications which a person must have before he can be nominated by the Lord Chancellor as a juvenile court chairman. This article also has the effect of requiring that a nomination may only be made on the recommendation of a Selection Committee.\n3 Articles 4 to 7 provide that a justice who already possesses the first two of the requirements prescribed by article 3 may proceed to take a special course (i.e. the third of the article 3 qualifications), and establish a Course Assessment Panel as the authority which is to determine whether the course has been successfully completed.\n4 Articles 8 to 13 establish a Selection Committee to decide which justices who are eligible under article 3 should be recommended to the Lord Chancellor for nomination. Articles 14 and 15 allow present or past juvenile court chairmen to be re-nominated if the Selection Committee considers them suitable; and article 16 requires that an eligible chairman whom the Committee is minded not to recommend for re-nomination shall be given an opportunity to be heard before a final decision is taken.\n5 Article 17 enables the Selection Committee to recommend to the Lord Chancellor at any time that a nomination of a justice as a court chairman should be suspended or revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1265/note",
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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."
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