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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-16",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/26",
  "legislation_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Complaints about holders of judicial office",
  "text": "(1) The Lord Chief Justice must prepare a code of practice relating to the handling of complaints against any person who holds a protected judicial office.\n(2) The code must include provision for any complaints appearing to the Lord Chief Justice—\n(a) to involve a serious allegation of misbehaviour or inability to perform the functions of an office, and\n(b) to have a reasonable prospect of being substantiated,\nto be referred to a tribunal for it to provide advice about any steps which should be taken to deal with the complaint.\n(3) The Lord Chief Justice may from time to time prepare a new code or make alterations to a code.\n(4) The Lord Chief Justice must publish each code prepared by him and any alterations which he makes to a code (or the code as altered).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/26/section/16",
    "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."
}