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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2014/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1919",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Discipline (Prescribed Procedures) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Investigating judge",
  "text": "(1) An investigating judge means an office holder or a former office holder who is nominated by the Lord Chief Justice to investigate a case in accordance with rules made under regulation 7.\n(2) The Lord Chief Justice may nominate different office holders to investigate different cases or to investigate different aspects of the same case.\n(3) An investigating judge must be of a higher rank than the office holder concerned.\n(4) In relation to a former office holder reference to their rank means the rank they held immediately before they ceased to hold office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1919/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:09:03.666230+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."
}