{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996/section-63G",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996/section-63G.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/27",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996",
  "path": "section/63G",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63G",
  "heading": "Variation of orders and their discharge",
  "text": "(1) The court may vary or discharge a forced marriage protection order on an application by—\n(a) any party to the proceedings for the order;\n(b) the person being protected by the order (if not a party to the proceedings for the order); or\n(c) any person affected by the order.\n(2) In addition, the court may vary or discharge a forced marriage protection order made by virtue of section 63C(1)(b) even though no application under subsection (1) above has been made to the court.\n(3) Section 63D applies to a variation of a forced marriage protection order as it applies to the making of such an order.\n(4) Section 63E applies to proceedings for a variation of a forced marriage protection order as it applies to proceedings for the making of such an order.\n(5) Accordingly, references in sections 63D and 63E to making a forced marriage protection order are to be read for the purposes of subsections (3) and (4) above as references to varying such an order.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4A inserted (25.11.2008 except in regard to the insertion of s. 63N) by Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 (c. 20), ss. 1, 4(2); S.I. 2008/2779, art. 2(a) (as amended (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 210 Table; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 63G(6)(7) repealed (16.6.2014) by Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), ss. 120(5)(a), 185(1) (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93, 120(6)); S.I. 2014/949, art. 5(a) (with art. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/27/section/63G",
    "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."
}