{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-3-rules-2012/rule-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2046",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-3-rules-2012",
  "path": "rule/4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "text": "In rule 12.58—\n(a) Omit the definition of “Central Authority”; and\n(b) after the definition of “Contracting State” insert—\n““domestic Central Authority” means—\n(a) where the matter relates to the Council Regulation, the Lord Chancellor;\n(b) where the matter relates to the 1996 Hague Convention in England, the Lord Chancellor;\n(c) where the matter relates to the 1996 Hague Convention in Wales, the Welsh Ministers;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2046/rule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:22:54.245531+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."
}