{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-court-composition-and-distribution-of-business-rules-2014/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-court-composition-and-distribution-of-business-rules-2014/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/840",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Court (Composition and Distribution of Business) Rules 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-court-composition-and-distribution-of-business-rules-2014",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Chairman",
  "text": "(1) When the family court is composed of two or three lay justices, it shall sit under the chairmanship of a lay justice who has been approved to preside in accordance with the 2016 Rules.\n(2) A lay justice may preside before being approved to preside in accordance with the 2016 Rules only if that lay justice is—\n(a) under the supervision of another authorised lay justice who is approved to preside in accordance with the 2016 Rules; and\n(b) has completed the training course required by rule 19 of the 2016 Rules.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) This rule and rule 12 are subject to sections 18(1) and (2) of the Courts Act 2003 .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 11(1) substituted (1.4.2017) by virtue of The Justices of the Peace Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/709), rules 1(3)(c), 36(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 11(2) substituted (1.4.2017) by The Justices of the Peace Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/709), rules 1(3)(c), 36(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 11(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2017) by The Justices of the Peace Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/709), rules 1(3)(c), 36(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 11(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2017) by The Justices of the Peace Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/709), rules 1(3)(c), 36(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Rule 11(3) omitted (1.4.2017) by virtue of The Justices of the Peace Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/709), rules 1(3)(c), 36(3)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 18 was amended by paragraph 85 of Schedule 10 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/840/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:20.192297+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."
}