{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-and-health-service-commissioners-act-1987/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-and-health-service-commissioners-act-1987/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/39",
  "legislation_title": "Parliamentary and Health Service Commissioners Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-and-health-service-commissioners-act-1987",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Appointment of acting Commissioners.",
  "text": "(1) The following section shall be inserted after section 3 of the 1967 Act—\n“ Appointment of acting Commissioner.\n3A (1) Where the office of Commissioner becomes vacant, Her Majesty may, pending the appointment of a new Commissioner, appoint a person under this section to act as the Commissioner at any time during the period of twelve months beginning with the date on which the vacancy arose.\n(2) A person appointed under this section shall hold office during Her Majesty’s pleasure and, subject to that, shall hold office—\n(a) until the appointment of a new Commissioner or the expiry of the period of twelve months beginning with the date on which the vacancy arose, whichever occurs first; and\n(b) in other respects, in accordance with the terms and conditions of his appointment which shall be such as the Treasury may determine.\n(3) A person appointed under this section shall, while he holds office, be treated for all purposes, except those of section 2 of this Act, as the Commissioner.\n(4) Any salary, pension or other benefit payable by virtue of this section shall be charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund.”\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6(2)(3) repealed (5.2.1994) by 1993 c. 46, ss. 20(2), 22(4), Sch.3 (with s. 3(4))."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/39/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:51:31.548412+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."
}