{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/26",
  "legislation_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Members’ tenure",
  "text": "(1) Subject as follows, a judicial member of the Commission holds office for the period specified in his appointment (or re-appointment).\n(1A) A person may not be appointed as a judicial member for more than five years at a time; and the aggregate period for which a person may be a judicial member by virtue of his holding any one of the judicial offices mentioned in section 3(6) must not exceed ten years.\n(2) The Lord Chancellor, acting jointly, may terminate the membership of a judicial member on the recommendation of the Lord Chief Justice.\n(3) A judicial member may resign by notice in writing to the Lord Chancellor.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(1)(1A) substituted (15.6.2005) for Sch. 2 para. 1(1) by Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 (c. 4), ss. 2(2), 19(1); S.R. 2005/282, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(2) substituted (15.6.2005) by Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 (c. 4), ss. 1, 19(1), Sch. 1 para. 5(2); S.R. 2005/282, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(3) substituted (15.6.2005) by Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 (c. 4), ss. 1, 19(1), Sch. 1 para. 5(3); S.R. 2005/282, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(2): transfer of functions (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(2) (with arts. 15(6), 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(3): transfer of functions (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(3) (with arts. 15(6), 28-31)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/26/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:23.998184+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."
}