{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-enduring-powers-of-attorney-rules-2001/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/825",
  "legislation_title": "The Court of Protection (Enduring Powers of Attorney) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-enduring-powers-of-attorney-rules-2001",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—\nexpressions used in the Supreme Court Act 1981 shall have the same meanings as they have in that Act;\n“the Act” means the Enduring Powers of Attorney Act 1985;\n“the 1983 Act” means the Mental Health Act 1983;\n“the 2001 Rules” means the Court of Protection Rules 2001;\n“applicant” includes an objector;\n“application” includes an objection;\n“attended hearing” means a hearing where one or more of the parties to the proceedings have been invited to attend the court for the determination of the application;\n“the court” means the Court of Protection;\n“direction” means a direction or authority given under the seal of the court;\n“enduring power of attorney” shall be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Act;\n“entered” means entered in the register of enduring powers of attorney kept by the court;\n“filed” means filed in the court office;\n“hearing” means an attended or unattended hearing;\n“judge” means the Lord Chancellor or a judge nominated under section 93(1) of the 1983 Act;\n“Master” means the Master of the Court of Protection;\n“nominated officer” means an officer of the court nominated under section 93(4) of the 1983 Act;\n“order” means an order of the court under seal and includes a certificate, direction or authority of the court under seal;\n“relative” means one of the persons referred to as relatives and entitled to receive notice under the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 to the Act;\n“seal” means an official seal of the court and “sealed” shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) In these Rules—\n(a) any reference to a numbered rule or to a numbered Schedule is a reference to the rule of, or the Schedule to, these Rules so numbered in these Rules;\n(b) any reference in a rule to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the rule in which the reference occurs; and\n(c) a form referred to by a letter alone means the form so designated in Schedule 1 or a form to the same effect with such variations as the circumstances may require and the court may approve and in both cases shall include a Welsh translation of the form.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 54."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1944",
      "affecting_title": "The Court of Protection (Enduring Powers of Attorney) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2002"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/825/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:57:56.237019+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."
}