{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-5-rules-2005/rule-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-5-rules-2005/rule-53.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/53",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Amendments to the 1991 Rules",
  "text": "In rule 2.66—\n(a) in paragraph (3), for “Where” substitute “In a matrimonial cause, where”; and\n(b) after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) In a civil partnership cause, where an application is proceeding in a civil partnership proceedings county court which is not a court of trial or pending in the High Court and proceeding in a district registry which is not in a dissolution town, the hearing or consideration shall take place at such court of trial or dissolution town as in the opinion of the district judge is the nearest or most convenient.\nFor the purposes of this paragraph the Royal Courts of Justice shall be treated as a dissolution town.”.",
  "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/53",
    "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."
}