{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/676",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Discipline (Prescribed Procedures) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Constitutional Reform Act 2005;\n“advisory committee” means one of the Lord Chancellor’s advisory committees on the appointment of justices of the peace;\n“business day” means any day except Saturday, Sunday or a bank holiday, and “bank holiday” includes Christmas Day and Good Friday;\n“case” means a complaint made under regulations 8, 9 or 10 or a referral made under regulation 13;\n“complaint” means a complaint containing an allegation of misconduct by a judicial office holder;\n“disciplinary action” means the exercise by the Lord Chancellor of his power to remove a person from an office listed in Schedule 14 to the Act; the exercise by the Lord Chief Justice of his powers under section 108(3), (4)(b) and (c) and (5) of the Act; or a decision to move an Address for the removal of a senior judge by both Houses of Parliament;\n“judicial office holder” means a senior judge, a holder of an office listed in Schedule 14 to the Act, or the holder of an office which has been designated by an order under section 118 of the Act;\n“justice of the peace” means a justice of the peace who is not a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts);\n“President” in relation to a tribunal means a President or other judicial office holder with disciplinary responsibility for tribunal members and includes any judicial office holder designated to exercise such disciplinary responsibility under rules made under regulation 10;\n“the subject of the disciplinary proceedings” means the judicial office holder whose conduct is being considered in accordance with these regulations.\n(2) In these regulations, a reference to the Lord Chief Justice is to be read—\n(a) in relation to a judicial office holder who exercises functions wholly or mainly in Scotland, as a reference to the Lord President of the Court of Session;\n(b) in relation to a judicial office holder who exercises functions wholly or mainly in Northern Ireland, as a reference to the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland;\n(c) otherwise, as a reference to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 14 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 has been amended to add certain offices by S.I. 2006/678 and is applied to coroners by S.I. 2006/677."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2098",
      "affecting_title": "The Judicial Discipline (Prescribed Procedures) (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/676/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:34:34.513449+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."
}