{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-2-rules-1996/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1674",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-2-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) These Rules shall apply to all proceedings commenced by a petition presented on or after 1st July 1996, and in relation to all other proceedings the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 shall have effect as if these Rules had not come into force.\n(2) Where an application for ancillary relief is made on or after 1st July 1996 but before 1st August 1996, an order including provision made by virtue of section 25B or 25C of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 may only be made in favour of a party who, on or after 1st August 1996, applies for such relief in form M11, specifying therein the terms of the order sought including such provision.\n(3) An application in form M11 made pursuant to paragraph (2) above may be made without the leave of the court, but in every other respect the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 shall apply to such a form M11 as they do to any other form M11.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1674/article/3",
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  },
  "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."
}