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Section 1 The Judicial Committee of the Privy CouncilF1

United Kingdom

(1)

There shall be a committee of the Privy Council styled “The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council”.

(2)

A person is a member of the committee if—

(a)

he is a member of the Privy Council who holds, or has held, high judicial office, or

(b)

another enactment provides for him to be a member of the committee.

(3)

Subsection (2)(a) does not apply to a person after the day on which he attains the age of 75 years.

(4)

In this section “high judicial office” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.

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Textual amendments

F1

S. 1 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 138, 148(1), Sch. 16 para. 2; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)