{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2021/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2021/875",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2021",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of Part 3A",
  "text": "In rule 3A.1 (interpretation)—\n(a) after the definition of “child” insert—\n““domestic abuse” has the meaning given in section 1 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021;”; and\n(b) after the definition of “participation direction” insert—\n““relative” has the meaning given by section 63(1) of the 1996 Act;\n“victim” includes a child to whom section 3(2) of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 applies; and”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Family Law Act 1996 (c. 27). Section 63(1) was amended by paragraphs 85 and 88 of Schedule 3 to the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38), paragraph 41 of Schedule 10 to the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c. 28), paragraph 14 of Part 1 of Schedule 9 and Schedule 30 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 (c. 20), paragraph 37 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22), paragraphs 129 and 138 of Part 1 to Schedule 11 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013, section 18(2)(b) of the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), paragraph 17 of Schedule 4 to the Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9) and S.I. 2018/1413."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/875/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:10:32.234184+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."
}