# The Restrictive Practices Court (Protection of Consumers) Rules 1976, Article 16


(1) Where in any proceedings under section 35 or 38 of the Act the Director intends to apply for a direction under section 40 thereof that any order made against a body corporate which is a member of a group of interconnected bodies corporate shall be binding on all members of the group, he shall serve a notice to that effect on each of them and shall file a copy thereof with the proper officer of the Court.
(2) As soon as a date and place have been fixed for the final hearing of the proceedings or for any hearing under rule 20(4), the Director shall give notice thereof to each of the bodies corporate other than the respondent on which notice under paragraph (1) was served.
(3) Every body corporate on which notice is served under paragraph (1) may appear at the final hearing or at any hearing under rule 20(4) notwithstanding that it is not a respondent to the proceedings and may be heard on the question whether any order made under section 37 or 39 of the Act should be directed to be binding on each member of the group.
(4) If at any time the respondent wishes the application for a direction under section 40 of the Act to extend to an interconnected body corporate not mentioned in the notice served under paragraph (1), it shall serve on that body and on the Director, and file with the proper officer of the Court, a notice containing particulars of that body; and paragraphs (2) and (3) shall thereupon apply to that body as if it had been served with notice under paragraph (1).
(5) With a view to deciding whether or on whom to serve notice under paragraph (1) the Director may, at any time before applying for directions under rule 14 or 20 (2), serve on the respondent a notice requiring it to give to the Director within 14 days after service of the notice particulars of any interconnected bodies corporate which are members of a group of which the respondent is a member and shall file a copy of any such notice with the proper officer of the Court.
(6) The respondent shall comply with any notice served under paragraph (5) by delivering to the Director and filing with the proper officer of the Court the particulars required by the notice within the time thereby prescribed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/1898/article/16 (the official version)
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