{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-6.42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-6.42.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/6.42",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.42",
  "heading": "Period for acknowledging service or responding to application where application is served out of the jurisdiction",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where, under these rules, a party is required to file—\n(a) an acknowledgment of service; or\n(b) an answer to an application,\nand sets out the time period for doing so where the application is served out of the jurisdiction.\n(2) Where the applicant serves an application on a respondent in—\n(a) Scotland or Northern Ireland; or\n(b) a ... Hague Convention country within Europe,\nthe period for filing an acknowledgment of service or an answer to an application is 21 days after service of the application.\n(3) Where the applicant serves an application on a respondent in a Hague Convention country outside Europe, the period for filing an acknowledgment of service or an answer to an application is 31 days after service of the application.\n(4) Where the applicant serves an application on a respondent in a country not referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3), the period for filing an acknowledgment of service or an answer to an application is set out in Practice Direction 6B.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 6.42(2)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Family Procedure Rules 2010 and Court of Protection Rules 2017 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/517), regs. 1(1), 6(4) (with reg. 22) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1493, regs. 1(1), 8(2)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/6.42",
    "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."
}