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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-guidelines-council-supplementary-provisions-order-2004/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/246",
  "legislation_title": "The Sentencing Guidelines Council (Supplementary Provisions) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-guidelines-council-supplementary-provisions-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Term of office, resignation and re-appointment of Council members",
  "text": "(1) In relation to the Council, the term of office of—\n(a) a judicial member appointed to the Council by virtue of his judicial office, shall last for so long as he holds that office;\n(b) the Director of Public Prosecutions, shall last for so long as he continues to be the Director of Public Prosecutions;\n(c) any other judicial or non-judicial member shall not exceed 5 years.\n(2) A member may resign at any time from the Council by giving 4 weeks notice in writing—\n(a) in the case of a judicial member, to the Lord Chancellor; and\n(b) in the case of a non-judicial member, to the Secretary of State.\n(3) A member falling within paragraph (1)(c) shall, on the expiry of his initial term of office, be eligible for re-appointment to the Council for one further term not exceeding 4 years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2006"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2006/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2006"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/246/article/2",
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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."
}