{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-tribunal-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-no-2-rules-2005/article-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-tribunal-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-no-2-rules-2005/article-55.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/519",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) (No. 2) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-tribunal-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-no-2-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/55",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Curator ad litem",
  "text": "(1) Where the circumstances in paragraph (2) apply, a curator ad litem may be appointed by the Tribunal or a Convener.\n(2) Those circumstances are–\n(a) that the patient does not have the capacity to instruct a solicitor to represent the patient's interests in proceedings before the Tribunal;\n(aa) an application or appeal has been initiated by virtue of a provision giving a listed initiator authority to act;\n(b) that where the Tribunal or a Convener has made a decision not to disclose a document or report or part of it to the patient under rule 47, and the patient does not have a representative to represent their interests; or\n(c) that the patient has been excluded from any hearing or part of it under rule 68 or 69 and the patient does not have a representative to represent their interests.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The Tribunal shall provide all necessary information to a curator ad litem appointed to enable the curator ad litem to represent the patient's interests in proceedings before the Tribunal.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 55(2)(aa) inserted (30.6.2017) by The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) (No. 2) Amendment Rules 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/172), rules 1, 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 55(3)(4) omitted (30.6.2017) by virtue of The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) (No. 2) Amendment Rules 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/172), rules 1, 6(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/519/article/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:39.485520+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."
}