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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-and-judicial-offices-act-2022/section-72",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/7",
  "legislation_title": "Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-and-judicial-offices-act-2022",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Meaning of “the relevant authority”",
  "text": "In this Chapter “the relevant authority” means—\n(a) in relation to a person who has remediable service in a judicial office within section 71(1)(a) or (b), the Lord Chancellor;\n(b) in relation to any other person, the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 72 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 131(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 72 in force at 4.7.2023 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2023/746, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/7/section/72",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:27.065737+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."
}