{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-7.5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-7.5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/7.5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "7.5",
  "heading": "Service of application",
  "text": "(1) After an application for a matrimonial or civil partnership order has been issued by the court, a copy of it must be served on any respondent.\n(Rule 6.5 provides for who is to serve an application for a matrimonial or civil partnership order; where the applicant serves the application, rule 6.6A and 6.41A provide a time limit of 28 days from the date of issue for taking the prescribed steps to serve the respondent , rule 6.23A specifies how service is to be effected on a person where there are reasonable grounds to believe that person is residing in a refuge.)\n(2) When the application is served on a respondent it must be accompanied by—\n(a) a form for acknowledging service; and\n(b) a notice of proceedings.\n(3) When the parties to the marriage or civil partnership have made a joint application for a matrimonial or civil partnership order (other than a nullity order) the court must send a copy of the notice of proceedings to both parties.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 7 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/44), rule 1(3)(a), Sch. (with rule 29); S.I. 2022/283, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 7.5(1) inserted (13.1.2025) by The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/1016), rules 1(3)(b), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/7.5",
    "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."
}