{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-and-auxiliary-forces-protection-of-civil-interests-rules-1951/article-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1951/1401",
  "legislation_title": "The Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Rules 1951",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-and-auxiliary-forces-protection-of-civil-interests-rules-1951",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Application on behalf of service man",
  "text": "(1) Where a person who would be entitled to apply for a declaratory order is for the time being performing a period of relevant service, the court or a judge may, for the purpose of enabling him to obtain the protection afforded by subsection (8) or (9) of section 3, treat as an application made by him for a declaratory order an application for that purpose made on his behalf by his wife or by any other person acting in good faith in his interest.\n(2) An application so made on behalf of a person performing relevant service shall be treated for the purposes of sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 3 as an application made by that person, unless the court or a judge on the hearing of the application otherwise determines.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1951/1401/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T02:08:01.319088+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."
}