{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996/section-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996/section-65.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/27",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996",
  "path": "section/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Rules, regulations and orders.",
  "text": "(1) Any power to make rules, orders or regulations which is conferred by this Act is exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(2) Any statutory instrument made under this Act may—\n(a) contain such incidental, supplemental, consequential and transitional provision as the Lord Chancellor considers appropriate; and\n(b) make different provision for different purposes.\n(3) Any statutory instrument containing an order, rules or regulations made under this Act, other than an order made under section 5(8) or 67(3), shall be subject to annulment by a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(4) No order shall be made under section 5(8) unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.\n(5) This section does not apply ... to rules of court made, or any power to make rules of court, for the purposes of this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(5) repealed (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 18(2)(d), 139(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 65 power partly exercised (28.7.1997): different dates appointed for specified provisions by S.I. 1997/1892, art. 3S. 65 power partly exercised (19.10.1998): 1.11.1998 appointed for specified provisions by S.I. 1998/2572, art. 3 (with transitional provisions in art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/27/section/65",
    "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."
}