{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-court-composition-and-distribution-of-business-rules-2014/article-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Composition: general",
  "text": "(1) Subject to rules in this Part, the family court shall be composed of—\n(a) one of the following—\n(i) a judge of district judge level;\n(ii) a judge of circuit judge level; or\n(iii) a judge of High Court judge level; or\n(b) two or three lay justices.\n(2) Where paragraph (1)(b) applies, the court shall include, so far as is practicable, both a man and a woman.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/840/article/3",
    "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."
}