{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2017/rule-21.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2017/rule-21.2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1035",
  "legislation_title": "The Court of Protection Rules 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2017",
  "path": "rule/21.2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "21.2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“claimant” means a person making a contempt application;\n“contempt application” means an application to the court for an order determining contempt proceedings;\n“defendant” means the person against whom the application is made;\n“order of committal” means the imposition of a sentence of imprisonment (whether immediate or suspended) for contempt of court;\n“penal notice” means a prominent notice on the front of an order warning that if the person against whom the order is made (and in the case of a corporate body, a director or officer of that body) disobeys the court’s order, the person (or director of officer) may be held in contempt of court and punished by a fine, imprisonment, confiscation of assets or other punishment under the law.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 21 substituted (1.1.2023) by The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1192), rule 1(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1035/rule/21.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:07:10.291890+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."
}