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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-lay-representation-for-non-natural-persons-2016/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/243",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Lay Representation for Non-Natural Persons) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-lay-representation-for-non-natural-persons-2016",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Lay representatives: functions, conditions and duties",
  "text": "(1) A lay representative may be shown any document (including a court document) or receive any information about the proceedings without the non-natural person, or any of its office holders or employees, contravening any prohibition or restriction on disclosure of the document or information.\n(2) Where a document or information is disclosed under subparagraph (1), the lay representative is subject to any prohibition or restriction on disclosure in the same way that the non-natural person is.\n(3) The court, of its own accord or on the motion of a party, may impose conditions on the exercise of functions by a lay representative, where it is necessary to do so in the interests of justice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/243/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:23:04.026335+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."
}