Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Rules may be cited as the Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on the same day as section 1 of the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015^f1.

(2)

In these Rules—

(a)

“the principal Rules” means the Family Proceedings Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996^f2; and

(b)

a reference to an Order, rule, Appendix or Form is a reference to that Order, rule, Appendix or Form so numbered in the principal Rules.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2015 c.9 (N.I.)
f2: S.R. 1996 No. 322, to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by S.R 1999 No. 88; S.R. 2003 No. 75; S.R. 2005 No. 497; and S.R. 2006 No. 304