PART 2AMENDMENTS TO PRIMARY LEGISLATION
Amendment of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 19806
In section 54—
a
for the heading, substitute “Adjournment and stays”; and
b
after subsection (2) insert—
3
In family proceedings a magistrates’ court may stay the whole or part of any proceedings or order either generally or until a specified date or event.
4
Subsections (1) and (2) are subject, for the purpose of family proceedings in any magistrates’ court, to other provision made by Family Procedure Rules.