{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-8.31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-8.31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/8.31",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "8.31",
  "heading": "Service of the application",
  "text": "(1) The court will serve a copy of the application on—\n(a) the respondent; and\n(b) the landlord (as defined by paragraph 1 of Schedule 7 to the 1996 Act ),\nunless the court directs that the applicant must do so.\n(2) Where service is effected by the applicant, the applicant must file a certificate of service.\n(Part 6 of these Rules makes provision in relation to the method of service, and includes rule 6.23A which specifies how service is to be effected on a person where there are reasonable grounds to believe that person is residing in a refuge.)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 8.31 inserted (13.1.2025) by The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/1016), rules 1(3)(b), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Paragraph 1 of Schedule 7 to the Family Law Act 1996 was amended by section 82 of and paragraphs 16(1) and (2) of Schedule 9 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and article 2 of and paragraph 10(b)(i) of the Schedule to the Housing Act 1996 (Consequential Amendments) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/74)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/8.31",
    "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."
}