http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/article/16.27/made
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
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2019-04-25
FAMILY PROCEEDINGS
SENIOR COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES
MAGISTRATES’ COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES
These rules provide a new code of procedure for family proceedings in the High Court, county courts and magistrates’ courts, and replace existing rules of court for family proceedings. The principal rules being replaced are the Family Proceedings Rules 1991, the Family Procedure (Adoption) Rules 2005 and, in so far as they relate to family proceedings, the Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991, the Family Proceedings (Matrimonial Proceedings etc) Rules 1991, and rules relating to the reciprocal enforcement of maintenance orders, in particular the Magistrates’ Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) Rules 1974.
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.3(1A)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 6(a)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.4(1)
(1A)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 7(b)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.4(2)-(2B)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 7(c)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(c)(ii)(ad)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(c)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)
(ai)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(i)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(i)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(ii)(aa)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(i)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(ii)(bb)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(ii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(iii)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(iii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(iv)(aa)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(iii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(iv)(bb)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(iii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(iv)(cc)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(iii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(iv)(dd)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(l)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(h)(i)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(l)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(h)(ii)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(l)(i)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(h)(iii)(aa)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(l)(i)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(h)(iii)(bb)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(m)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(i)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(n)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(j)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)
(ai)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(i)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)(i)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(ii)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)(ii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(iii)(aa)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)(ii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(iii)(bb)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)(ii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(iii)(cc)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)(ii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(iii)(dd)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(p)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(l)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.9(2)(e)
(f)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 13(d)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.10(1)
(1A)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 14(b)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.10(3)(ba)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 14(d)(i)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.10(3)(ca)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 14(d)(iii)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 28.3(7)(aa)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 19
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
Rules
The International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance 2007) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
reg. 8
reg. 1
PART 16REPRESENTATION OF CHILDREN AND REPORTS IN PROCEEDINGS INVOLVING CHILDREN
CHAPTER 7CHILDREN’S GUARDIAN APPOINTED UNDER RULE 16.4
Powers and duties of children’s guardian16.27
1
The children’s guardian—
a
has the powers and duties set out in Practice Direction 16A; and
b
must exercise those powers and duties in accordance with Practice Direction 16A.
2
Where the children’s guardian is an officer of the Service or a Welsh family proceedings officer, rule 16.20 applies to a children’s guardian appointed in accordance with this Chapter as it applies to a children’s guardian appointed in accordance with Chapter 6.