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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-general-teaching-council-for-scotland-order-2011/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2011/215",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Services Reform (General Teaching Council for Scotland) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-general-teaching-council-for-scotland-order-2011",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Term of office",
  "text": "(1) The duration of the term of office of each member of the GTCS is 4 years.\n(2) No member of the GTCS may hold office for more than an aggregate of 8 years during any period of 20 years.\n(3) For the purposes of the computation of years under sub-paragraph (2), service as a member of the GTCS before 2nd April 2012 is to be discounted.\n(4) This paragraph is subject to paragraph 6 (initial term of office).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 2.4.2012, see art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/215/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
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  },
  "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."
}