Rule 31 Amendments to the Family Procedure Rules 2010

in paragraph (1), after “Lugano Convention,” insert “or by the 2007 Hague Convention,”;

in paragraph (2)(c)—

in paragraph (3)—

For paragraph (7) substitute—

“(7)

Any request by a magistrates’ court in England and Wales for the taking or providing of evidence by a court in a State listed in paragraph (8) for the purposes of proceedings to which an instrument listed in that paragraph applies, or by a court in another part of the United Kingdom, shall be communicated in writing to the court in question.

(8)

The States and instruments referred to in paragraph (7) are—

(a)

a Contracting State to the 1968 Convention;

(b)

a Contracting State to the 1988 Convention;

(c)

a State bound by the Lugano Convention;

(d)

Denmark, in relation to proceedings to which the Maintenance Regulation applies;

(e)

a State bound by the 2007 Hague Convention,

but this paragraph and paragraph (7) do not apply where the State in question is a Member State of the European Union to which the Taking of Evidence Regulation (as defined in rule 24.15) applies.”.