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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stipendiary-magistrates-scotland-order-2010/article-5",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2010/142",
  "legislation_title": "The Stipendiary Magistrates (Scotland) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stipendiary-magistrates-scotland-order-2010",
  "path": "article/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Role of SMAC",
  "text": "(1) The role of a SMAC is to make recommendations to the Scottish Ministers on the appointment of stipendiary magistrates in relation to the sheriffdom for which that SMAC has been established.\n(2) A person may only be appointed as a stipendiary magistrate for a sheriffdom if that person has been recommended for appointment by a SMAC for that sheriffdom.\n(3) A SMAC must consider all applications submitted to it, and may interview any of the applicants.\n(4) Interviews must be conducted by all 3 members of the SMAC.\n(5) Where, after a recruitment process, a SMAC does not make any recommendation for appointment to the Scottish Ministers, the Scottish Ministers may re-advertise the vacancy or vacancies in accordance with article 3.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/142/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:56:20.296392+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."
}