{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-rules-2015/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-rules-2015/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/913",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-rules-2015",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "text": "In rule 7.11 (nullity: interim and full gender recognition certificates)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a)—\n(aa) for “section 12(g)” substitute “section 12(1)(g)”; and\n(bb) omit “or” the second time it occurs;\n(ii) after sub-paragraph (a), insert—\n“(aa) nullity of marriage under section 12A(3) of the 1973 Act in a case where section 12(1)(g) of the 1973 Act applies; or”;\n(b) in paragraph (4), for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—\n“(a) the application is for—\n(i) a decree of nullity of marriage under section 12(1)(h) of the 1973 Act;\n(ii) a decree of nullity of marriage under section 12A(3) of the 1973 Act in a case where section 12(1)(h) of the 1973 Act applies ; or\n(iii) an order of nullity of civil partnership under section 50(1)(e) of the 2004 Act; and”; and\n(c) after paragraph (4), insert—\n“(In relation to paragraphs (1)(aa), (3)(a) and (4)(a)(ii), section 9(6) of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 provides that where a civil partnership is converted into a marriage, the civil partnership ends on the conversion, and the resulting marriage is to be treated as having subsisted since the date the civil partnership was formed.)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 7.11 was amended by S.I. 2014/524."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2013 c.30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/913/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:40:00.623450+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."
}