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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restrictive-practices-court-protection-of-consumers-rules-1976/article-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1976/1898",
  "legislation_title": "The Restrictive Practices Court (Protection of Consumers) Rules 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restrictive-practices-court-protection-of-consumers-rules-1976",
  "path": "article/12",
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  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In proceedings in England and Wales or in Northern Ireland a notice of application, answer or reply may be amended—\n(a) at any time by leave of the Court;\n(b) at any time before the hearing of the application for directions without leave, if—\n(i) in the case of a notice of application or reply, the Director and all respondents who have entered an appearance or, as the case may be, to whose answer the reply is directed, agree; or\n(ii) in the case of an answer, the Director and all respondents seeking to amend agree;\nand a copy of the pleading as amended shall be delivered to all opposite parties and filed with the proper officer of the Court within such time as may be allowed by the Court or agreed between the parties concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/1898/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:28.465339+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."
}