{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-29.6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-29.6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/29.6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "29.6",
  "heading": "Documents in proceedings concerning gender recognition",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies to all documents in proceedings brought under—\n(a) section 12(1)(g) or (h) of, or paragraph 11(1)(e) of Schedule 1 to, the 1973 Act ; ...\n(aa) section 12A(3) of the 1973 Act in a case where section 12(1)(g) or (h) of the 1973 Act applies; ...\n(ab) section 50(1)(d) of the 2004 Act;\n(ac) section 50(1)(e) of the 2004 Act; or\n(b) the Gender Recognition Act 2004.\n(2) Documents to which this rule applies must, while they are in the custody of the court, be kept in a place of special security.\n(In relation to paragraph (1)(aa), 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": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 29.6(1)(a) substituted (1.7.2015) by The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/913), rules 1, 12(a)(i)(aa) (with rule 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 29.6(1)(a) omitted (1.7.2015) by virtue of The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/913), rules 1, 12(a)(i)(bb) (with rule 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 29.6(1)(aa) inserted (1.7.2015) by The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/913), rules 1, 12(a)(ii) (with rule 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in rule 29.6(1)(aa) omitted (1.10.2021) by virtue of The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/875), rules 1, 11(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Rule 29.6(1)(ab)(ac) inserted (1.10.2021) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/875), rules 1, 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 29.6 inserted (1.7.2015) by The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/913), rules 1, 12(b) (with rule 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 12(g) was amended by section 148 of and paragraph 34 of Schedule 4 to the Mental Health Act 1983 and section 4(4) of and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 to the Gender Recognition Act 2004."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/29.6",
    "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."
}