{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-32.23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-32.23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/32.23",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "32.23",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n“appropriate court” means, in relation to—\n(a)Scotland, the Court of Session;\n(b)Northern Ireland, the High Court in Northern Ireland; and\n(c)a specified dependent territory, the corresponding court in that territory;\n“appropriate officer” means, in relation to—\n(a)the Court of Session, the Deputy Principal Clerk of Session;\n(b)the High Court in Northern Ireland, the Master (Care and Protection) of that court; and\n(c)the appropriate court in a specified dependent territory, the corresponding officer of that court;\n“Part 1 order” means an order under Part 1 of the 1986 Act;\n“the register” means the register kept for the purposes of Part 1 of the 1986 Act; and\n“specified dependent territory” means a dependent territory specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to the Family Law Act 1986 (Specified Dependent Territories) Order 1991 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1723."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/32.23",
    "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."
}