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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-adult-protection-and-support-orders-rules-2017/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1199",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Adult Protection and Support Orders) Rules 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-adult-protection-and-support-orders-rules-2017",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules make provision for applications for adult protection and support orders under section 127 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. The purpose of such orders, set out in section 127(2), is to enable an authorised officer (a person authorised for this purpose by a local authority in Wales) to speak in private to a person living in any premises within the local authority’s area who is thought to be an adult at risk (an adult who is experiencing or is at risk of abuse or neglect, has needs for care and support and as a result of those needs is unable to protect himself or herself against the neglect or abuse or risk of it), so that the authorised officer can establish whether the person is making decisions freely, whether he or she is an adult at risk, whether any action should be taken, and if so what action.\nWhen an adult protection and support order is in force, the authorised officer, a constable (if necessary) or any other person specified in the order has the power to enter the premises where the suspected adult at risk is living, for the purposes in section 127(2).\nAn application for an adult protection and support order is made by an authorised officer to a justice of the peace, and section 127 sets out the grounds on which an order may be made, the matters which must be specified in any such order and other matters which may be specified. These Rules specify the information which the authorised officer must provide in the application, to enable the justice of the peace to determine whether the grounds for making an order are made out, and if so what should be included in the order.\nAn impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no impact on the voluntary or private sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1199/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:05:25.065361+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."
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