{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-order-1991/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-order-1991/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1677",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-order-1991",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Orders under section 8 of the Children Act 1989",
  "text": "(1) An application for an order under section 8 in a divorce county court, which is not also a family hearing centre, shall, if the court is notified that the application will be opposed, be transferred for trial to a family hearing centre.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where an application for an order under section 8 is to be transferred from the High Court to a county court it shall be transferred to a family hearing centre.\n(3) Where an application for an order under section 8 is to be transferred to a county court for the purpose of consolidation with other proceedings, it may be transferred to the court in which those other proceedings are pending whether or not it is a family hearing centre; but paragraph (l) shall apply to the application following the transfer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1677/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:56.002723+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."
}