{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/882",
  "legislation_title": "The Clergy Conduct Rules 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026",
  "path": "rule/8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Service on litigation friend",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies in relation to a document that is required or authorised to be given to a protected person under the CCM or these Rules.\n(2) The document—\n(a) must, if it is given, be given to the protected person’s litigation friend, and\n(b) may also be given to the protected person.\n(3) If a document is given to the protected person’s litigation friend under paragraph (2)(a), it is treated for the purposes of the CCM and these Rules as being given to the protected person (whether or not it is also given to the protected person).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/882/rule/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:56:54.526438+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."
}