{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pitcairn-constitution-order-2010/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pitcairn-constitution-order-2010/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/244",
  "legislation_title": "The Pitcairn Constitution Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pitcairn-constitution-order-2010",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Existing offices and officers",
  "text": "(1) Except for the office of Legal Adviser, any office established by or under the Pitcairn Order 1970 and existing immediately before the appointed day shall on and after that day, so far as consistent with the Constitution, continue as if it had been established by or under the Constitution.\n(2) Any person who immediately before the appointed day holds or is acting in an office referred to in subsection (1) shall, on and after that day, continue to hold or act in that office or the corresponding office established by the Constitution as if he or she had been appointed to hold or act in it in accordance with or under the Constitution; but any person who under the law in force immediately before the appointed day would have been required to vacate his or her office at the expiration of any period shall vacate that office at the expiration of that period.\n(3) Any person to whom subsection (2) applies who, before the appointed day, has made any oath or affirmation required to be made before assuming the functions of his or her office shall be deemed to have made any like oath or affirmation so required by the Constitution or any other law.\n(4) The person who holds the office of Legal Adviser immediately before the appointed day shall, on and after that day, hold the office of Attorney General in accordance with the Constitution.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1970/1434, amended by S.I. 2000/1340 and 2002/2638."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/244/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:53:55.923739+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."
}