{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-factors-scotland-act-2025/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-factors-scotland-act-2025/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/3",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Factors (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-factors-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Qualification for appointment as judicial factor",
  "text": "(1) A person may be appointed as a judicial factor only if the person is—\n(a) an individual,\n(b) of full legal capacity, and\n(c) in the opinion of the court to which it falls to make the appointment, a suitable person to hold the office.\n(2) A person domiciled outside of Scotland, who is appointed as a judicial factor under this Act, prorogates the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts by accepting the appointment.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 54(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/3/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:01.167576+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."
}