{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-act-1971/schedule-3/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-act-1971/schedule-3/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/38",
  "legislation_title": "Misuse of Drugs Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-act-1971",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An advisory body shall consist of three persons of whom—\n(a) one shall be a person who is of counsel to Her Majesty and is appointed by the Lord Chancellor to be the chairman of the advisory body; and\n(b) another shall be a person appointed by the Secretary of State, being a member of the respondent’s profession who is an officer of a department of the Government of the United Kingdom; and\n(c) the other shall be a person appointed by the Secretary of State from among the members of the respondent’s profession nominated as mentioned in paragraph 1 above.\n(1A) The chairman of an advisory body shall vacate his office on the day on which he attains the age of 75.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) above shall have effect in relation to an advisory body in Scotland as if for the reference to the Lord Chancellor there were substituted a reference to the Lord President of the Court of Session.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 13(1A) inserted (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 42(3) (with Sch. 7 paras. 2(2), 3(2), 4); S.I. 1995/631, art.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 para. 13(1A) substituted (10.3.2022) by Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7), s. 131(1)(4)(a), Sch. 1 para. 12(3) (with Sch. 1 para. 43)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 13: transfer of functions (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 17 para. 3 (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 13(1)(b): Functions transferred (S.) (1.7.1999) by virtue of S.I. 1999/1750, art. 2, Sch. 1 (with art. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/38/schedule/3/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:00.895978+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."
}