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Paragraph 7

England and Wales

While matrimonial proceedings are pending in the court in respect of a marriage and the trial or first trial in those proceedings has not begun, it shall be the duty of any person who is F1an applicant in the proceedings, or is a respondent and has in his answer included a prayer for relief, to furnish, in such manner and to such persons and on such occasions as may be prescribed, such particulars as may be prescribed of any proceedings which—

(a)

he knows to be continuing in another jurisdiction; and

(b)

are in respect of that marriage or capable of affecting its validity or subsistence.

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Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 1 para. 7 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/237), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 1(3)(b) (with reg. 3); S.I. 2022/283, reg. 2