{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-review-tribunal-for-wales-rules-2008/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-review-tribunal-for-wales-rules-2008/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2705",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-review-tribunal-for-wales-rules-2008",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Notice of proceedings",
  "text": "When the Tribunal receives the information required by rule 15(3), (4) or (5), the Tribunal must give notice of the proceedings—\n(a) where the patient is subject to the guardianship of a private guardian, to the guardian;\n(b) where there is an extant order of the superior court of record established by section 45(1) of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 , to that court;\n(c) unless the patient requests otherwise, where any person other than the applicant is named in the responsible authority's statement as exercising the functions of the nearest relative, to that person;\n(d) ... and\n(e) to any other person the Tribunal may consider should have an opportunity of being heard.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 16(d) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 121(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2005 c.9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2705/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:23:17.878228+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."
}