{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/schedule-8/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/schedule-8/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/8/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Chief Inspector’s tenure",
  "text": "(1) Subject as follows, the Chief Inspector holds office in accordance with the terms of his appointment (or re-appointment).\n(2) The Chief Inspector must not be appointed for more than five years at a time.\n(3) The Chief Inspector may resign by notice in writing to the Department of Justice.\n(4) The Department of Justice may dismiss the Chief Inspector if satisfied that—\n(a) he has without reasonable excuse failed to exercise his functions for a continuous period of three months beginning not earlier than six months before the day of dismissal,\n(b) he has been convicted of a criminal offence,\n(c) a bankruptcy order has been made against him or he has become the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order , or a debt relief order has been made in respect of him or he is the subject of a debt relief restrictions order, or his estate has been sequestrated, or he has made a composition or arrangement with, or granted a trust deed for, his creditors, or\n(d) he is otherwise unable or unfit to exercise his functions.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 1(3)(4) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 24(2) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 1(4)(c) inserted (21.4.2015) by The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/159), art. 1, Sch. Pt. 1 para. 12(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 1(4)(c) inserted (7.3.2016) by The Debt Relief Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/108), art. 1, Sch. para. 19(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/26/schedule/8/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."
}