{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996-commencement-no-2-order-1997/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996-commencement-no-2-order-1997/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1892",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Law Act 1996 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996-commencement-no-2-order-1997",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Until such time as Part II of the Family Law Act 1996 is brought into force, paragraphs 2(2), 7(3), (4) and (6), 12 and 13(1) of Schedule 7 to that Act shall be modified as follows:—\n(a) for paragraph 2(2) there shall be substituted the following:\n“(2) On granting a decree of divorce, a decree of nullity of marriage or a decree of judicial separation or at any time thereafter (whether, in the case of a decree of divorce or nullity of marriage, before or after the decree is made absolute), the court may make a Part II order.”:\n(b) in paragraph 7(3) and (4) the words “(or, in the case of judicial separation, his spouse)” shall be substituted for the words “(or, if a separation order is in force, his spouse)”;\n(c) paragraph 7(6) shall be omitted;\n(d) in paragraph 12(1) the words “divorce or” shall be inserted after the words “decree of” and paragraph 12(2) shall be omitted; and\n(e) in paragraph 13(1):\n(i) the words “the making of a divorce order or” and “the making of that order or” shall be omitted, and\n(ii) the words, “dissolving or” shall be inserted after the words “grant of a decree”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2014/6",
      "affecting_title": "Children and Families Act 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1892/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:59:30.840620+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."
}