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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-appointments-commission-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1335",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Appointments Commission (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-appointments-commission-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Judicial Appointments Commission Regulations 2013 (“the 2013 Regulations”). They change the composition of the Judicial Appointments Commission as provided for in the 2013 Regulations.\nThese Regulations amend regulation 4(1) and (4) of the 2013 Regulations to increase the total number of Commissioners from 15 to 16 and to provide that the additional Commissioner must be a person practising or employed as a lawyer, such that there will be three Commissioners who are persons practising or employed as lawyers, one of whom must be a barrister in England and Wales, one a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and one a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.\nRegulation 4(1) of the 2013 Regulations provides that 7 Commissioners must be holders of judicial office and, under regulation 4(2), one of these must be a senior tribunal office-holder member. Regulation 5 of the 2013 Regulations provides that a senior tribunal office-holder member is a person who holds one of a specified list of offices. These Regulations add to that list of offices, so increasing the list of persons who are eligible to become the senior tribunal office-holder member Commissioner.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no significant impact on the public, private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1335/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:08:14.079587+00:00"
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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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