{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-mental-health-rules-1996/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-mental-health-rules-1996/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2149",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Mental Health Rules) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-mental-health-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Intimation to representatives",
  "text": "Where, in an application to which rule 2(1) above applies, the sheriff clerk becomes aware that—\n(a) the person who is the subject of the application is represented by any person, and\n(b) that representative would not otherwise receive intimation of any diet,\na copy of the notice served on the person who is the subject of the application shall be intimated to the representative by the sheriff clerk by post by the first class recorded delivery service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2149/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:42.784057+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."
}