{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2007/rule-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2007/rule-55.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1744",
  "legislation_title": "The Court of Protection Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2007",
  "path": "rule/55",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "What the court will do when an application for permission to start proceedings is filed",
  "text": "Within 14 days of a permission form being filed, the court will issue it and—\n(a) grant the application in whole or in part, or subject to conditions, without a hearing and may give directions in connection with the issue of the application form;\n(b) refuse the application without a hearing; or\n(c) fix a date for the hearing of the application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/548",
      "affecting_title": "The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1744/rule/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:51:00.743935+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."
}