{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/22",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Restriction on making of orders under this Act: welfare of children.",
  "text": "Where an application is made by a party to a marriage for an order under section 2, 6 or 7 of this Act, then, if there is a child of the family who is under the age of eighteen, the court shall not dismiss or make a final order on the application until it has decided whether to exercise any of its powers under the Children Act 1989 with respect to the child.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 8 substituted (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20) s. 108, Sch. 13 para. 36 (with Sch. 14 para. 1(1)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/22/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:00.803749+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."
}