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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-constitution-regulations-1999/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-constitution-regulations-1999/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2395",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-constitution-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Casual vacancies on the committee",
  "text": "(1) If a casual vacancy arises on a committee, the committee may request the selection panel to select a justice to fill the vacancy but shall not be obliged to do so unless the committee would otherwise be inquorate.\n(2) A justice who is appointed to a casual vacancy on a committee shall serve only for the remaining part of the period for which the member he replaced was appointed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2395/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:41.566737+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."
}