{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-rules-2016/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-rules-2016/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/709",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices of the Peace Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-rules-2016",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Eligibility for re-election",
  "text": "(1) A justice is not eligible to be elected as chairman for a local justice area for more than three terms in that local justice area, unless at least six years have elapsed since the justice last filled that vacancy.\n(2) In any event, a justice is not eligible to be elected as chairman for a local justice area for more than six terms in total in any one local justice area.\n(3) A justice is not eligible to be elected as a deputy chairman for a local justice area for more than five terms in any one local justice area.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 18 in force at 31.7.2016, see rule 1(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/709/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:12.985248+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."
}