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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2022/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2022/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/821",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2022",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (“the FPR”) (S.I. 2010/2955).\nRule 3 amends the FPR to clarify the time period within which an applicant must serve a forced marriage protection order or a female genital mutilation protection order on the respondent and, where applicable, on the person who is the subject of the proceedings.\nRule 4 amends the FPR to enable a practice direction to make provision for notification to the police when a forced marriage protection order or a female genital mutilation protection order is made, varied, extended or discharged.\nRule 5 inserts a new Chapter 6A into Part 12 of the FPR to make provision about return proceedings with linked protection claims (including asylum claims).\nRule 6 amends the FPR by inserting a new rule 36.2A enabling provision to be made by practice direction for the purposes of the piloted commencement of any provisions of Part 3 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (c. 17) (for which section 90(7) to (9) of that Act makes provision).\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/821/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:57:19.998137+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."
}