{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005/article-101",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005/article-101.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2483",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Administration Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/101",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "101",
  "heading": "Filing and service of affidavits",
  "text": "(1) Unless the provisions of the 1986 Act, Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act or the Rules under which the application is made provide otherwise, or the court otherwise allows—\n(a) if the applicant intends to rely at the first hearing on affidavit evidence, he shall file the affidavit or affidavits (if more than one) in court and serve a copy or copies on the respondent, not less than 14 days before the date fixed for the hearing, and\n(b) where a respondent to an application intends to oppose it and to rely for that purpose on affidavit evidence, he shall file the affidavit or affidavits (if more than one) in court and serve a copy or copies on the applicant, not less than 7 days before the date fixed for the hearing.\n(2) Any affidavit may be sworn by the applicant or by the respondent or by some other person possessing direct knowledge of the subject matter of the application.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 101 in force at 1.10.2005, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2483/article/101",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:53.544569+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."
}