{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-9B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-9B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/26",
  "legislation_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002",
  "path": "section/9B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9B",
  "heading": "Complaints: interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of this Part.\n(2) A Commission complaint is a complaint by a qualifying complainant of maladministration by the Commission or a committee of the Commission.\n(3) A departmental complaint is a complaint by a qualifying complainant of maladministration by the Lord Chancellor ... in connection with any of the following—\n(a) recommendation for or appointment to a listed judicial office;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) A qualifying complainant is a complainant who claims to have been adversely affected, as an applicant for selection or as a person selected under this Part or paragraph 2A of Schedule 11 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998, by the maladministration complained of.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 9A and preceding cross-heading inserted (25.9.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 124(2), 148; S.I. 2006/1537, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 9B inserted (25.9.2006 for certain purposes and otherwise prosp.) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 125, 148; S.I. 2006/1537, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 9B(3) omitted (12.4.2010) by virtue of Northern Ireland Act 2009 (c. 3), s. 5(7), Sch. 3 para. 8(2) (with Sch. 5 para. 13); S.I. 2010/812, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 9B(3)(b) omitted (1.4.2009) by virtue of The Transfer of Tribunal Functions and Revenue and Customs Appeals Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/56), art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 330"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 9B(4) inserted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 2009 (c. 3), s. 5(7), Sch. 3 para. 8(3); S.I. 2010/812, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/26/section/9B",
    "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."
}