{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/office-of-communications-act-2002/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/office-of-communications-act-2002/schedule/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/11",
  "legislation_title": "Office of Communications Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/office-of-communications-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Chief executive and other employees of OFCOM",
  "text": "(1) There shall be a chief executive of OFCOM.\n(2) The chief executive shall be appointed by the chairman and other non-executive members of OFCOM with the approval of the Secretary of State.\n(3) OFCOM may appoint such other employees as they may determine and make such other arrangements for the staffing of OFCOM as they think fit.\n(4) Sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply in relation to any time before such date as the Secretary of State may notify to OFCOM as the date from which they are required to have a chief executive; and the membership of OFCOM shall not be required at any time before that date to include any executive member.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/11/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:39.229884+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."
}