{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/schedule-9/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/schedule-9/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/9/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Commissioners’ tenure",
  "text": "(1) Subject as follows, a Commissioner holds office for the period specified in his appointment (or re-appointment).\n(2) A person may not be appointed as a Commissioner for more than five years at a time.\n(3) A Commissioner may resign by notice in writing to the Department of Justice.\n(4) The Department of Justice may dismiss a Commissioner 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. 9 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. 25(2) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 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(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 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(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/26/schedule/9/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."
}