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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-amendment-rules-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/866",
  "legislation_title": "The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-amendment-rules-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MENTAL CAPACITY, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 10th July 2025\nLaid before Parliament 15th July 2025\nComing into force 1st October 2025\nThe President of the Family Division, as nominee of the Lady Chief Justice under paragraph 2(2)(b) of Schedule 1 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, being President of the Court of Protection, makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 51 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.\nThe Lord Chancellor agrees these Rules in accordance with paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2005 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2005 c. 9. Section 51 was amended by S.I. 2006/1016 and by paragraph 38 of the Schedule to the Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (c. 33)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/866/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:13:11.955175+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."
}