{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-4-rules-2012/rule-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-4-rules-2012/rule-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2806",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-4-rules-2012",
  "path": "rule/16",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "text": "In rule 20.7—\n(a) in paragraph (2)(a)(ii), after “Lugano Convention,” insert “a State bound by the 2007 Hague Convention which is an EEA State,”;\n(b) after the words in parentheses at the end of the rule, insert—\n“(“EEA State” is defined in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 20.7(2)(a)(ii) was amended by S.I. 2011/1328 rules 2 and 15, and by S.I. 2012/679 rules 2 and 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1978 c. 30. The definition of “EEA State” was inserted by section 26(1) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2806/rule/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:14:05.713065+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."
}