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17 Retirement, removal and disqualifications of Circuit judge.E+W

[F1(1)Subject to subsection (4) below F2... a Circuit judge shall vacate his office on the day on which he attains the age of [F375].]

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(4)The Lord Chancellor may, if he thinks fit [F5and if the Lord Chief Justice agrees], remove a Circuit judge from office on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour.

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