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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007/section-55",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/15",
  "legislation_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Appointment of deputy Circuit judges",
  "text": "In section 24(1) of the Courts Act 1971 (c. 23) (appointment of deputy Circuit judges and assistant recorders) for paragraph (a) substitute—\n“(a) the Lord Chancellor may, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, appoint to be a deputy Circuit judge, during such period or on such occasions as the Lord Chancellor thinks fit, any person who has held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court or as a Circuit judge;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/15/section/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:45.892078+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."
}