{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/turks-and-caicos-islands-constitution-order-2011/schedule-2/paragraph-77",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1681",
  "legislation_title": "The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/turks-and-caicos-islands-constitution-order-2011",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/77",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Constitution of Supreme Court",
  "text": "(1) There shall be a Supreme Court for the Turks and Caicos Islands which shall have such jurisdiction and powers as may be conferred on it by this Constitution and any other law.\n(2) The judges of the Supreme Court shall be a Chief Justice and such number of other judges as may be determined by the Governor, acting after consultation with the Chief Justice; but the office of a judge shall not, without the consent of that judge, be abolished during his or her continuance in office.\n(3) The judges of the Supreme Court shall be persons qualified for appointment under subsection (4) and shall be appointed by the Governor, acting in accordance with section 87, by instrument under the public seal.\n(4) A judge of the Supreme Court must be—\n(a) a barrister or solicitor of the United Kingdom, of any other part of the Commonwealth, or of Ireland;\n(b) a member of the Faculty of Advocates or a Writer to the Signet of Scotland; or\n(c) an attorney of the Supreme Court admitted under the Legal Profession Ordinance or under any law for the time being in force in the Islands making like provision,\nand of at least ten years’ standing as such.\n(5) It shall be lawful for a person qualified for appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court to be appointed (regardless of his or her age) for such term as may be specified in the instrument of appointment, and section 85 shall have effect in relation to any person so appointed as if he or she would attain the retiring age applicable to that office on the day on which the specified term expires.\n(6) The Chief Justice shall be the head of the judiciary of the Turks and Caicos Islands.\n(7) The Chief Justice shall have responsibility for the management of all matters arising in the judicature, including responsibility—\n(a) for representing the views of the judiciary to the Government and the Parliament, including, where appropriate, through the Attorney General;\n(b) for the maintenance of appropriate arrangements for the welfare, training and guidance of the judiciary within available resources;\n(c) subject to paragraph (d), for the maintenance of appropriate arrangements for the deployment of the judiciary and the allocation of work within courts;\n(d) after consultation with the President of the Court of Appeal, who shall be responsible for the allocation of work within the Court of Appeal, for the maintenance of appropriate arrangements for the work of that court.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 s. 77(6)(7) inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/1128), art. 18 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Ordinance No. 5 of 1997."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1681/schedule/2/paragraph/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:17.487261+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."
}