# The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2012, Rule 31: Amendments to the Family Procedure Rules 2010


In rule 34.38—
(a) in paragraph (1), after “Lugano Convention,” insert “or by the 2007 Hague Convention,”;
(b) in paragraph (2)(c)—
(i) after “Judgments Regulation” for “or” substitute “,”;
(ii) after “Maintenance Regulation” insert “or the 2007 Hague Convention”;
(c) in paragraph (3)—
(i) after “Judgments Regulation” for “or” substitute “,”;
(ii) after “Maintenance Regulation” insert “or the 2007 Hague Convention”;
(d) 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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2806/rule/31 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no-4-rules-2012/rule-31
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