{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-8.38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-8.38.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/8.38",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "8.38",
  "heading": "Who the parties are",
  "text": "(1) The applicant to the proceedings is the Secretary of State and the respondent is the person who has failed to pay child support maintenance.\n(2) The court may at any time direct that —\n(a) any person be made a party to proceedings; or\n(b) a party be removed from the proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 8.38(1) substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 125(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/8.38",
    "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."
}