{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-act-1981/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-act-1981/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/54",
  "legislation_title": "Senior Courts Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-act-1981",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Injunctions to restrain persons from acting in offices in which they are not entitled to act.",
  "text": "(1) Where a person not entitled to do so acts in an office to which this section applies, the High Court may—\n(a) grant an injunction restraining him from so acting; and\n(b) if the case so requires, declare the office to be vacant.\n(2) This section applies to any substantive office of a public nature and permanent character which is held under the Crown or which has been created by any statutory provision or royal charter.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/54/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:48.516361+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."
}