{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-1994/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-1994/section-26.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/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Notification of application for appointment of receiver, etc.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, where—\n(a) a first application is made for the appointment of a receiver for a patient or for an order authorising a person to do any act or carry out any transaction on behalf of a patient without appointing him receiver, or\n(b) the court proposes to make a short order or the Public Trustee proposes to give a direction with respect to a patient’s property under rule 9.\nthe patient shall be notified in such manner as the court or the Public Trustee may direct.\n(2) The court or, where rule 9(1)(b) applies, the Public Trustee, may at any time direct that no such notification shall be given if it or he is satisfied that—\n(a) the patient is incapable of understanding it, or\n(b) such notification would be injurious to the patient’s health, or\n(c) for any other reason notification ought to be dispensed with.\n(3) Where paragraph 2(c) applies, the court or the Public Trustee shall state the reason for dispensing with notification.\n(4) Where the patient is a minor, notification under paragraph (1) of this rule shall be given, whether or not notification to the patient is dispensed with under paragraph (2) and unless the court otherwise directs, to his parent or guardian or, if he has no parent or guardian, to the person with parental responsibility within the meaning of the Children Act 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3046/section/26",
    "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."
}