{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no3-rules-2013/rule-74",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no3-rules-2013/rule-74.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/3204",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-no3-rules-2013",
  "path": "rule/74",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "text": "After rule 29.16, insert—\n“Transfer of proceedings\n29.17. (1) Subject to paragraph (3), a court may transfer a case to another court, either of its own initiative or on the application of one of the parties if—\n(a) the parties consent to the transfer;\n(b) the court has held a hearing to determine whether a transfer should be ordered; or\n(c) paragraph (2) applies.\n(2) A court may transfer a case without a hearing if—\n(a) the court has notified the parties in writing that it intends to order a transfer; and\n(b) no party has, within 14 days of the notification being sent, requested a hearing to determine whether a transfer should be ordered.\n(3) A case may not be transferred from the family court to the High Court unless—\n(a) the decision to transfer was made by a judge sitting in the family court who is a person to whom paragraph (4) applies; or\n(b) one or more of the circumstances specified in Practice Direction 29C applies.\n(4) This paragraph applies to a person who is—\n(a) the President of the Family Division;\n(b) an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal (including the vice-president, if any, of either division of that court);\n(c) a puisne judge of the High Court.\nApplication for change of area\n29.18. The Part 18 procedure applies to an application to the family court for existing proceedings to be heard in a different Designated Family Judge area.\n(Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service publishes information to enable Designated Family Judge areas to be identified.)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3204/rule/74",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:31:32.513107+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."
}