{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2007/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1898",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2007",
  "path": "article/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Senior Judge of the Court of Protection",
  "text": "The person who, immediately before the commencement of Part 2 of the Act, holds the office of Master of the Court of Protection, shall be treated as—\n(a) being a circuit judge nominated under section 46(1) of the Act to exercise the jurisdiction of the Court of Protection; and\n(b) having been appointed the Senior Judge of the Court of Protection under section 46(4) of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Having been appointed to that office in accordance with section 89(1) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Supreme Court Act 1981 (c.54)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1898/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:49:42.402388+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."
}