{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008/rule-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008/rule-66.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1797",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008",
  "path": "rule/66",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Hearings before registrar to be in public",
  "text": "(1) The hearing before the registrar of any dispute between two or more parties relating to any matter in connection with an application for the registration of a mark or a registered mark shall be in public unless the registrar, after consultation with those parties who appear in person or are represented at the hearing, otherwise directs.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 66(2) omitted (3.11.2008) by virtue of The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 345"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 66 in force at 1.10.2008, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1797/rule/66",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:28:07.429295+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."
}