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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-acting-adjudicator-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2342",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration (Acting Adjudicator) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-acting-adjudicator-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointment",
  "text": "(1) The Lord Chancellor may, in order to facilitate the disposal of the business of the adjudicator, appoint a person to carry out the functions of the adjudicator during any vacancy in that office.\n(2) To be qualified for appointment under paragraph (1), a person must hold the office of district judge (as defined in section 74(1) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990).\n(3) The person appointed shall carry out the functions of the adjudicator during the vacancy, unless within that period, he:—\n(a) dies; or\n(b) resigns by giving notice in writing to the Lord Chancellor; or\n(c) is removed by the Lord Chancellor on the grounds of incapacity or misbehaviour.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/2006/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2006"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2006"
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      "affecting_title": "The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2006"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2342/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
}