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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guardianship-missing-persons-act-2017/section-10",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/27",
  "legislation_title": "Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guardianship-missing-persons-act-2017",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Directions by the court to guardians",
  "text": "(1) The court may give a direction to a guardian about—\n(a) whether or how to act in a particular case, or\n(b) the scope of the guardian's authority under the guardianship order and this Act.\n(2) The court may do so on an application or without an application being made (and see sections 19 and 20).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 10 in force at 31.7.2019 by S.I. 2019/1032, reg. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/27/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:23.419260+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."
}