{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-3.7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-3.7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/3.7",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3.7",
  "heading": "Making an application",
  "text": "An application to initiate any of the proceedings specified in Rule 3.6 must contain, or be accompanied by, a form containing, either—\n(a) a confirmation from an authorised family mediator that the prospective applicant has attended a MIAM; or\n(b) a claim by the prospective applicant that one of the MIAM exemptions applies.\n(A list of MIAM exemptions is set out in Rule 3.8(1) below.)\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3 substituted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/843), rules 1, 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 3.7(a) inserted (29.4.2024) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/1324), rules 1(3)(b), 9(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in rule 3.7(b) substituted (29.4.2024) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/1324), rules 1(3)(b), 9(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 3.7(c) and words omitted (29.4.2024) by virtue of The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/1324), rules 1(3)(b), 9(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/3.7",
    "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."
}