{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/schedule-9/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/3",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After paragraph 1 insert—\n“Appointment of members\n1A (1) The non-executive members of the Office are to be appointed by the Secretary of State.\n(2) A person who is a non-executive member must not be an employee of the Office (but may have been such an employee before appointment as a non-executive member).\n1B (1) The employee members of the Office are to be appointed from the staff of the Office by the non-executive members.\n(2) If the non-executive members propose to appoint an employee member, the Director General must recommend a person to the non-executive members for appointment.\n(3) The Director General may also recommend a person to the non-executive members for appointment as an employee member without any proposal having been made under sub-paragraph (2).\n(4) On a recommendation of a person for appointment under sub-paragraph (2) or (3), the non-executive members may—\n(a) appoint the person, or\n(b) reject the recommendation.\n(5) If the non-executive members reject a recommendation they may require the Director General to recommend another person for appointment (in which case this sub-paragraph applies again and so on until somebody is appointed).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 3 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 183"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 3 in force at 8.1.2018 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2017/1249, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/3/schedule/9/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:52.204895+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."
}