{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-rules-2017/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-rules-2017/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/413",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-amendment-rules-2017",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (S.I. 2010/2955) to—\nensure that applicants for certain orders do not, in person, hand over papers to respondents (rules 3(1) and (2) and 4(1), (2)(b) and (3)); and\nmake minor, tidying consequential amendments (rules 4(2)(a) and 5).\nNo impact assessment has been produced for these Rules, as no, or no significant, impact is anticipated to result from their provisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/413/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:12:35.288598+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."
}