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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2006/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2006/regulation-20.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/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Nomination of investigating judge",
  "text": "(1) When a case is to be subject to judicial investigation, the Lord Chief Justice with the agreement of the Lord Chancellor shall nominate a judicial office holder or a former judicial office holder to be the investigating judge.\n(2) The investigating judge must be of a higher judicial rank than the subject of the disciplinary proceedings.\n(3) In relation to a former judicial office holder, reference to his judicial rank means the rank he held immediately before he ceased to hold judicial office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/676/regulation/20",
    "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."
}