{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-11.8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-11.8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/11.8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "11.8",
  "heading": "Orders made by the court of its own initiative",
  "text": "(1) Where the court makes a ... protection order of its own initiative under section 63C of the 1996 Act or under paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2003 Act , it must set out in the order—\n(a) a summary of its reasons for making the order; and\n(b) the names of the persons who are to be served with the order.\n(2) The court may order service of the order on—\n(a) any of the parties to the current proceedings;\n(b) (if different) the person who is the subject of the proceedings; and\n(c) any other person whom the court considers should be served.\n(3) The court must give directions as to how the order is to be served.\n(Rule 6.23A specifies how service is to be effected on a person where there are reasonable grounds to believe that person is residing in a refuge.)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 11.8(1) omitted (17.7.2015) by virtue of The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/1420), rules 1(2), 11(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 11.8(1) inserted (17.7.2015) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/1420), rules 1(2), 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 11.8 inserted (13.1.2025) by The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/1016), rules 1(3)(b), 7(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 63C was inserted by section 1 of the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/11.8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:56.480940+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."
}