{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restrictive-practices-court-rules-1976/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restrictive-practices-court-rules-1976/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1976/1897",
  "legislation_title": "The Restrictive Practices Court Rules 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restrictive-practices-court-rules-1976",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any person or association who objects to being made a representative respondent, or to being represented by the representative respondent nominated for that purpose by the Director, may, within 28 days of being given notice in writing under sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of rule 5(2) (or, in the case of a person who has not been given such notice, of the latest publication referred to in sub-paragraph (c) of that rule) apply by notice in writing to the Court for an order revoking or modifying the nomination and containing such other directions as may be specified in the notice.\n(2) A person applying under paragraph (1) above shall file his notice of application with the proper officer of the Court, together with an affidavit setting out the facts and matters on which he relies, and shall at the same time serve copies of the notice and affidavit on the Director and (if the applicant is not a person nominated as a respresentative respondent) on the person nominated to represent him.\n(3) On the hearing of an application under this rule, the Court may make such order and give such consequential directions as it may think fit.\n(4) Where the Director has nominated a representative respondent, he shall not serve a copy of the notice of reference upon the person so nominated until either—\n(a) the time limited for making an application under paragraph (1) has expired without any such application having been made; or\n(b) if such an application has been made, it has been disposed of by the Court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/1897/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:29.395092+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."
}