{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-29.17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-29.17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/29.17",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "29.17",
  "heading": "Transfer of proceedings",
  "text": "(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules 29.17, 29.18 inserted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/3204), rules 1, 74 (with rule 137); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/29.17",
    "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."
}