{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-5-rules-2005/rule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-5-rules-2005/rule-4.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/4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the 1991 Rules",
  "text": "In rule 1.4—\n(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) Subject to the provisions of these rules—\n(a) matrimonial proceedings pending at any time in the principal registry which, if they had been begun in a divorce county court, would be pending at that time in such a court, shall be treated, for the purposes of these rules and of any provision of the County Court Rules 1981 and the County Courts Act 1984, as pending in a divorce county court and not in the High Court, and\n(b) civil partnership proceedings pending at any time in the principal registry which, if they had been begun in a civil partnership proceedings county court, would be pending at that time in such a court, shall be treated, for the purposes of these rules and of any provision of the County Court Rules 1981 and the County Courts Act 1984, as pending in a civil partnership proceedings county court and not in the High Court.”; and\n(b) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) after “a divorce county court” the first time it appears insert “or a civil partnership proceedings county court or a designated county court”;\n(ii) omit “a divorce county court” the second time it appears; and\n(iii) after “to or from” insert “,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1687. These Rules were replaced by the Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (S.I. 1998/3132) but rule 3 of the Family Proceedings (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1999 (S.I. 1999/1012) provides that a reference to those Rules in the Family Proceedings Rules is a reference to them as in force immediately before 26th April 1999."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 28."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2922/rule/4",
    "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."
}