{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-9.21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-9.21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/9.21",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "9.21",
  "heading": "Who the respondent is on an application under section 20 or section 20A of the 1978 Act or Part 6 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Act",
  "text": "In relation to proceedings set out in column 1 of the following table, column 2 sets out who the respondents to those proceedings will be.\nProceedings\nRespondent\nApplication under section 20 of the 1978 Act, ....\nThe other party to the marriage; and\nwhere the order to which the application relates requires periodical payments to be made to, or in respect of, a child who is 16 years of age or over, that child.\nApplication under paragraphs 30 to 34 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Act, ....\nThe other party to the civil partnership; and\nwhere the order to which the application relates requires periodical payments to be made to, or in respect of, a child who is 16 years of age or over, that child.\nApplication for the revival of an order under section 20A of the 1978 Act or paragraph 40 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Act.\nThe parties to the proceedings leading to the order which it is sought to have revived.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 9.21 table omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/3204), rules 1, 30 (with rule 137); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 20A was inserted by section 33(1) of and paragraph 69 of Schedule 2 to the Family Law Reform Act 1987 and substituted by section 108(5) of and paragraph 39 of Schedule 13 to the Children Act 1989."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/9.21",
    "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."
}