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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-scotland-act-2014/section-4",
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  "legislation": "asp/2014/10",
  "legislation_title": "Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Assignment to office",
  "text": "(1) There is established the office to be known as that of President of the Scottish Tribunals.\n(2) It is for the Lord President to assign a person to that office.\n(3) An assignment of a person to that office continues for as long as the Lord President considers appropriate.\n(4) The Lord President may nominate a Vice-President of the Upper Tribunal to act temporarily in that office—\n(a) if a person assigned to that office is for the time being unable to act in it, or\n(b) pending an assignment of a person to that office.\n(5) A person assigned to that office under subsection (2) or nominated to act in it under subsection (4) must be a judge of the Court of Session (but may not be a temporary judge).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4(1)-(3) in force at 14.7.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/183, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 4(4) in force at 1.4.2015 by S.S.I. 2015/116, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 4(5) in force at 14.7.2014 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2014/183, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 4(5) in force at 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2015/116, art. 2"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/10/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:42:54.004820+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."
}