{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2023/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2023/regulation-20.json",
  "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/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Scotland and Northern Ireland: eligibility to exercise functions",
  "text": "Where the office holder concerned is a member of a tribunal which has jurisdiction throughout Great Britain or the United Kingdom, the following office holders may also be nominated as a nominated judge under regulation 8, as an investigating judge under regulation 10 or as a member of a disciplinary panel under regulation 11—\n(a) where the office holder concerned exercises functions wholly or mainly in Scotland, a sheriff, a sheriff principal or a judge of the Court of Session;\n(b) where the office holder concerned exercises functions wholly or mainly in Northern Ireland, the holder of an office listed in Schedule 1 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1005/regulation/20",
    "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."
}