{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/25",
  "legislation_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Appointment and removal of justices of the peace.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Act, justices of the peace for any commission area shall be appointed by the Lord Chancellor by instrument on behalf and in the name of Her Majesty and a justice so appointed may be removed from office in like manner.\n(2) Subsection (1) above—\n(a) does not apply to District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts); . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(2)(a) substituted (31.8.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 78, Sch. 11 paras. 43, 44 (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 5(2)(b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it repealed (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 106, 108(3)(f), Sch. 15 Pt. V(1) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 19992657, art. 2(d)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 5 extended (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 105, 108(3)(e), Sch. 14 Pt. V para. 21 (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 1999/2657, art. 2(d)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/25/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:26:14.706489+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."
}