{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-2-rules-1997/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-2-rules-1997/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1056",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-2-rules-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Family Proceedings Rules so as—\n(a) to make consequential amendments following the enactment of the Civil Evidence Act 1995 (rules 2 and 3);\n(b) to introduce (in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the Civil Procedure Act 1997) a new procedure for applications for ancillary relief brought in certain specified courts (rules 4 and 5);\n(c) to reflect the change in name of chief clerk (rules 5 and 6); and\n(d) to relax for specified purposes the requirements for confidentiality in respect of the report of a guardian ad litem (rule 7).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1056/note",
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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."
}