{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1991/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1991/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/525",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1991",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Applications for injunctions",
  "text": "For Order 47, rule 8(7), there shall be substituted the following–\n“(7) The judge before whom a person arrested is brought pursuant to section 2(4) may exercise his power to punish that person for disobedience to the injunction, notwithstanding that a copy of the injunction has not been served on him in accordance with Order 29, rule 1(2), and that no notice has been issued or served on him pursuant to Order 29, rule 1(4), if the judge is satisfied that the person arrested was aware of the injunction either by being present when it was granted or by being notified of its terms whether by telephone or otherwise.\n(7A) The judge before whom a person is brought pursuant to section 2(4) may adjourn the proceedings and, where such an order is made, the arrested person shall be released and–\n(a) be dealt with (whether by the same or another judge) within 14 days of the day on which he was arrested; and\n(b) be given not less than 2 days' notice of the adjourned hearing,\nbut nothing in this paragraph shall prevent the issue of a notice under Order 29, rule 1(4) if the arrested person is not dealt with within the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) above.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/525/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:49:14.766858+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."
}