{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-5-rules-2005/rule-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-5-rules-2005/rule-38.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2922",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 5) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-5-rules-2005",
  "path": "rule/38",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Amendments to the 1991 Rules",
  "text": "In rule 2.46—\n(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) If the Queen’s Proctor wishes to show cause—\n(a) against a decree nisi being made absolute, or\n(b) against a conditional order being made final,\nhe shall give notice to that effect to the court and to the party in whose favour it was pronounced.”;\n(b) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) after “the decree”, the first time it appears, insert “or civil partnership order, as the case may be,”; and\n(ii) for “the decree”, the second time it appears, substitute “that decree or order”;\n(c) in paragraph (5), after “decree” insert “or civil partnership order”; and\n(d) in paragraph (6), after “decree nisi” insert “or the conditional order”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2922/rule/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:24.166904+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."
}