{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/army-custody-rules-2000/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/army-custody-rules-2000/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2368",
  "legislation_title": "The Army Custody Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/army-custody-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Qualifications to be held by legal representatives",
  "text": "(1) A person may only—\n(a) represent the commanding officer or, as the case may be, the person to whom the proceedings relate, at a hearing;\n(b) be appointed under rule 19(2) as a legal adviser,\nif he is appropriately qualified.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person is appropriately qualified if—\n(a) he is a person who has a general qualification within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;\n(b) he is an advocate or a solicitor in Scotland;\n(c) he is a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland or a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland;\n(d) he is a person who has in any Commonwealth country or any colony rights and duties similar to those of a barrister or solicitor in England and Wales, and is subject to punishment or disability for breach of professional rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 41; subsection (6) of section 71 was substituted, and subsections (7) and (8) were repealed, by the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2368/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:30:29.277176+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."
}