{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-act-1981/schedule-2/part-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-act-1981/schedule-2/part-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/54",
  "legislation_title": "Senior Courts Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-act-1981",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/2",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Office\nPersons qualified\nMaster, Queen's Bench Division\nA person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.\nQueen's Coroner and Attorney and Master of the Crown Office and Registrar of Criminal Appeals\nA person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 7-year basis.\nAdmiralty Registrar\nA person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.\nMaster, Business and Property Division\nA person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.\nInsolvency and Companies Court Judge\nA person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.\nTaxing Master of the Senior Courts\nA person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.\nDistrict judge of the principal registry of the Family Division\n1. A person who satisfies the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 5-year basis.\n2. A district probate registrar who either—\n(a)is of at least 5 years' standing, or\n(b)has, during so much of the 5 years immediately preceding his appointment as he has not been a district probate registrar, served as a civil servant in the principal registry or a district probate registry.\n3. A civil servant who has served at least 7 years in the principal registry or a district probate registry.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 substituted (21.7.2008) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), ss. 50, 148, Sch. 10 para. 13(3)-(5); S.I. 2008/1653, art. 2(d) (with arts. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table substituted (1.10.2026) by The Senior Courts (Transfer, Amendment and Consequential Provision) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/723), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 12(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table substituted (26.2.2018) by The Alteration of Judicial Titles (Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/130), art. 1, Sch. para. 6(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/2/part/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:48.516361+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."
}