{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-1994/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-1994/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3046",
  "legislation_title": "THE COURT OF PROTECTION RULES 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-1994",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requiresexpressions used in the Supreme Court Act 1981 shall have the same meaning as they have for the purposes of that Act;\n“the Act” means the Mental Health Act 1983;\n“court” means the Court of Protection;\n“direction” means a direction or authority given under the seal of the Public Trustee;\n“entered” means entered in the books of the court or the Public Trust Office as appropriate;\n“filed” means filed in the court office or the Public Trust Office as appropriate;\n“function” means any power, discretion or function conferred by the Act;\n“judge” means the Lord Chancellor or a nominated judge;\n“Master” means the Master of the Court of Protection;\n“officer” means an officer of the Court of Protection or of the Public Trust Office as appropriate;\n“order” includes a certificate, direction or authority of the court under seal;\n“patient” includes a person who is alleged to be or who the court has reason to believe may be incapable by reason of mental disorder of managing and administering his property and affairs;\n“receiver” means a receiver appointed under section 99(1) of the Act;\n“seal” means an official seal of the Court of Protection or the Public Trustee as appropriate and “sealed” shall be construed accordingly;\n“stock” includes shares and also any fund, annuity or security transferable in the books kept by any body corporate or unincorporated company or society, or by an instrument of transfer either alone or accompanied by other formalities and includes any dividends paid in respect of them;\n“Visitor” means one of the Lord Chancellor’s Visitors.\n(2) Where, in these Rules, there is a reference to something which may be done by the court or the Public Trustee, the reference shall be construed as meaning the court or the Public Trustee as appropriate.\n(3) In these Rules a form referred to by letter means the form so designated in the Schedule to these Rules or a form to the same effect with such variations as the circumstances may require or the court may approve and in respect of either the form designated in the Schedule or a variation of it, shall include a Welsh translation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 54."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3046/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:22:02.569441+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."
}