{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-12.29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-12.29.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/12.29",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12.29",
  "heading": "Notification of consent",
  "text": "(1) Consent for the purposes of the following provisions of the 1989 Act—\n(a) section 16(3) ;\n(b) section 38A(2)(b)(ii) or 44A(2)(b)(ii); or\n(c) paragraph 19(3)(c) or (d) of Schedule 2,\nmust be given either—\n(i) orally to the court; or\n(ii) in writing to the court signed by the person giving consent.\n(2) Any written consent for the purposes of section 38A(2) or 44A(2) of the 1989 Act must include a statement that the person giving consent—\n(a) is able and willing to give to the child the care which it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give; and\n(b) understands that the giving of consent could lead to the exclusion of the relevant person from the dwelling-house in which the child lives.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Paragraph (a) was repealed by sections 6(1), (2), 15(2) of and Schedule 3 to the Children and Adoption Act 2006."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/12.29",
    "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."
}