{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-adoption-rules-2005/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-adoption-rules-2005/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2795",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Adoption) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-adoption-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Court documents",
  "text": "(1) A court officer must seal, or otherwise authenticate with the stamp of the court, the following documents on issue—\n(a) the application form;\n(b) the order; and\n(c) any other document which a rule or practice direction requires it to seal or stamp.\n(2) The court officer may place the seal or the stamp on the document—\n(a) by hand; or\n(b) by printing a facsimile of the seal on the document whether electronically or otherwise.\n(3) A document purporting to bear the court’s seal or stamp will be admissible in evidence without further proof.\n(4) The relevant practice direction contains provisions about court documents.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "A seal is a mark which the court puts on a document to indicate that the document has been issued by the court."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2795/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:01.488224+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."
}