{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2023/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1005",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Discipline (Prescribed Procedures) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Constitutional Reform Act 2005;\n“area coroner” means a person appointed as such under paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009;\n“assistant coroner” means a person appointed as such under paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009;\n“bank holiday” means a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;\n“case” means a complaint or issue of misconduct being considered under these Regulations;\n“complaint” means a complaint made in accordance with rules made under regulation 7 and containing an allegation of misconduct by a person holding an office;\n“conduct advisory committee” means one of the Lord Chancellor’s conduct advisory committees on justices of the peace;\n“deputy secretary” means a deputy secretary of a conduct advisory committee;\n“disciplinary panel” has the meaning given by regulation 11;\n“disciplinary sanction” means any of the following actions taken in relation to misconduct—\n(a) the exercise by the Lord Chancellor of any of the Lord Chancellor’s powers to remove a person from office;\n(b) the exercise by the Lord Chief Justice of any of the Lord Chief Justice’s powers under section 108(3), (4)(b) and (c) and (5) of the Act; or\n(c) a decision that the Lord Chancellor will move an Address for the removal of a senior judge by both Houses of Parliament;\n“investigating judge” has the meaning given by regulation 10;\n“JCIO” means the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office, as defined in regulation 4(2);\n“justice of the peace” means a justice of the peace who is not a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts);\n“nominated committee member” has the meaning given by regulation 9;\n“nominated judge” has the meaning given by regulation 8;\n“office” means an office listed in regulation 3(2);\n“office holder concerned” means an office holder whose conduct is being considered in accordance with these Regulations;\n“secretary” means a secretary of a conduct advisory committee;\n“senior coroner” means a person appointed as such under paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009;\n“working day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday in any part of the United Kingdom.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to the Lord Chief Justice must be read—\n(a) in relation to an 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 an 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": "1971 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 108 was extended by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, Schedule 3, paragraph 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1005/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:40:35.596968+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."
}