{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-sussex-amalgamation-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-sussex-amalgamation-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2542",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Sussex) Amalgamation Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-sussex-amalgamation-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The clerk designate",
  "text": "(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after the coming into force of this Order, and in any event not later than the day before the first appointed day, the transferor committees shall appoint one or more clerks designate in respect of the committee area of the transferee committee.\n(2) The clerk designate shall hold office (jointly if more than one) until such time as the transferee committee shall appoint a person to be the justices' chief executive for their area, and upon such appointment the office of clerk designate shall cease to exist.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2542/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:55:31.550025+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."
}