{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-32.7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-32.7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/32.7",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "32.7",
  "heading": "Registration of Scottish and Northern Irish orders",
  "text": "On receipt of a certified copy of a Scottish order or a Northern Irish order for registration, a court officer in the principal registry (who is the prescribed in the High Court officer for the purposes of section 17(2) of the 1950 Act) or a court officer in the family court (who is the prescribed officer in the family court for the purposes of section 17(2) of the 1950 Act) will—\n(a) enter particulars of the order in ... the register;\n(b) notify the clerk of the court which made the order or the registrar in Northern Ireland, as the case may be, that the order has been registered; and\n(c) file the certified copy of the order and any statutory declaration, affidavit(GL) or statement as to the amount of any arrears due under the order.\n(Section 17(3) of the 1950 Act makes provision as to the court in England and Wales to which a Northern Irish order or a Scottish order should be sent, which depends on which court originally made the order.)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 32.7 inserted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/3204), rules 1, 83(a) (with rule 137); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 32.7 inserted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/3204), rules 1, 83(b) (with rule 137); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 32.7(a) omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/3204), rules 1, 83(c) (with rule 137); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 32.7(b) substituted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/3204), rules 1, 83(d) (with rule 137); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 32.7 inserted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/3204), rules 1, 83(e) (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/32.7",
    "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."
}