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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-summary-applications-statutory-applications-and-appeals-etc-rules-1999/rule-3.8.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-summary-applications-statutory-applications-and-appeals-etc-rules-1999/rule-3.8.2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/929",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc. Rules) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-summary-applications-statutory-applications-and-appeals-etc-rules-1999",
  "path": "rule/3.8.2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3.8.2",
  "heading": "Appointment of hearing",
  "text": "(1) On an application being submitted, the sheriff shall appoint a hearing subject, in the case of an application for admission, to section 21(3A) of the Act.\n(2) The sheriff may, where he considers it appropriate in all the circumstances, appoint that the hearing of an application shall take place in a hospital or other place.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 3.8.2 in force at 1.7.1999, see rule 1.1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Subsection (3A) of section 21 was inserted by the Mental Health (Detention) (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 47), section 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/929/rule/3.8.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:53:39.377865+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."
}