{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lay-representatives-rights-of-audience-order-1992/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lay-representatives-rights-of-audience-order-1992/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1966",
  "legislation_title": "The Lay Representatives (Rights of Audience) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lay-representatives-rights-of-audience-order-1992",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any person may exercise rights of audience in proceedings which stand referred to arbitration by virtue of Order 19, rule 3 of the County Court Rules 1981.\n“Proceedings which stand referred to arbitration” do not include proceedings—\n(a) at any stage after the award has been entered as the judgment in the proceedings;\n(b) on any appeal brought against any decision made by the district judge in the proceedings;\n(c) on any application to set aside the award.\n(2) A lay representative may not exercise any right of audience where his client does not attend the hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1687; the relevant amending instrument is S.I.1992/1965; the rule cited in article 2 is made under County Courts Act 1984 (c. 28), section 64."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1966/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:17:29.731210+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."
}