{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-probation-boards-appointment-regulations-2000/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-probation-boards-appointment-regulations-2000/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3342",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Probation Boards (Appointment) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-probation-boards-appointment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may suspend, or remove, from office a member of a local probation board, by giving notice in writing on one of the following grounds:\n(a) subject to paragraph (2) below, that he has failed to attend board meetings for a continuous period of two months without the consent of the board;\n(b) that he has been convicted of a criminal offence;\n(c) that he has become subject to the notification requirements of Part I of the Sex Offenders Act 1997;\n(d) that a bankruptcy order has been made against him, or his estate has been sequestrated or he has made a composition or arrangement with, or granted a trust deed for, his creditors; or\n(e) that it is considered that he is unable or unfit to discharge his functions as a member.\n(2) A member of a local probation board shall not be removed from office under paragraph (1)(a) above if in the opinion of the Secretary of State he has good reason for the non-attendance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/786",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3342/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:08:17.686525+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."
}