{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-rules-2016/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-rules-2016/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Eligibility of justices and family justices",
  "text": "(1) A justice is eligible to stand for election and to vote in an election for the offices of chairman and deputy chairman, and membership of a JTAAAC selection panel if, on the relevant date, that justice is assigned to a local justice area to which the election relates.\n(2) A family justice is eligible to stand for election and to vote in an election for membership of an FTAAAC selection panel if, on the relevant date, that justice is assigned to a local justice area to which the election relates.\n(3) The relevant date in paragraphs (1) and (2) is the day on which the justices' legal adviser informs the eligible justices under Rule 10(2).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 7(3) substituted (6.4.2020) by The Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provision) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/100), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 19(3)(a) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 7 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/7",
    "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."
}