{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-procedure-rules-and-practice-directions-rules-2026/schedule/rule-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-procedure-rules-and-practice-directions-rules-2026/schedule/rule-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/696",
  "legislation_title": "The Online Procedure (Rules and Practice Directions) Rules 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-procedure-rules-and-practice-directions-rules-2026",
  "path": "schedule/rule/28",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules, unless the context requires or the Rules provide otherwise—\n“authorised person” means a member of tribunal staff authorised by the Senior President of Tribunals under paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 5 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007;\n“court officer” means a member of staff appointed under section 2(1) of the Courts Act 2003 or section 40(1) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007;\n“legal adviser” means an authorised person or court officer who is—\n(a) a barrister;\n(b) a solicitor; or\n(c) a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, or a CILEX lawyer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2007 c. 15. Paragraph 3(3) was inserted by section 3 of, and paragraph 44(3) of the Schedule to, the Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (c. 33)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/696/schedule/rule/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:59:13.235300+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."
}