{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judiciary-and-courts-scotland-act-2008/section-39",
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  "legislation": "asp/2008/6",
  "legislation_title": "Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judiciary-and-courts-scotland-act-2008",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Temporary judges: removal from office",
  "text": "(1) Where subsection (2) applies, a person may be removed from office as a temporary judge by the First Minister.\n(2) This subsection applies if—\n(a) a tribunal constituted under section 35 has reported to the First Minister that the person is unfit to hold that office by reason of inability, neglect of duty or misbehaviour, and\n(b) the First Minister has laid the report before the Scottish Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 39 in force at 1.4.2010 by S.S.I. 2010/39, art. 2(b), Sch. (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2008/6/section/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:44.431271+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."
}