{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/27",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "The general principles underlying section 22.",
  "text": "The court and any person, in exercising functions under or in consequence of section 22, shall have regard to the following general principles—\n(a) that the institution of marriage is to be supported;\n(b) that the parties to a marriage which may have broken down are to be encouraged to take all practicable steps, whether by marriage counselling or otherwise, to save the marriage;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 substituted (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 18(4), 139(4) (with s. 18(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(c) repealed (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 18(2)(a), 139(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 1(d) repealed (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 18(2)(a), 139(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 heading substituted (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 18(4), 139(4) (with s. 18(6))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/27/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:31:06.048320+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."
}