{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no4-1980/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no4-1980/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1980/2000",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No.4) 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no4-1980",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For paragraph (1) of Order 54, rule 1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—\n“(1) Subject to rule 11, an application for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum shall be made to a judge in court, except that—\n(a) it shall be made to a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division if the Court so directs;\n(b) it may be made to a judge otherwise than in court at any time when no judge is sitting in court; and\n(c) any application on behalf of a minor must be made in the first instance to a judge otherwise than in court.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/2000/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:47:57.643907+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."
}