{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restrictive-practices-court-rules-1976/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1976/1897",
  "legislation_title": "The Restrictive Practices Court Rules 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restrictive-practices-court-rules-1976",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a notice of reference applies to a number of agreements, any respondent may, within 14 days of entering an appearance to the notice, apply to the Court to exclude from the notice any agreement to which he is a party on the ground that the agreement is not related to the other agreements to which the notice applies, or is not related to some of those agreements, in such a way as to make it desirable that they should all be considered in the same proceedings; and the Court may, on the hearing of the application, amend the notice by excluding any agreement or agreements therefrom, and shall give all such consequential directions as it considers necessary, including a direction that any respondent who is a party to the agreement in question be treated as if he had not entered an appearance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/1897/article/8",
    "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."
}