{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-amendment-rules-2008/rule-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-amendment-rules-2008/rule-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2858",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) (Amendment) Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-amendment-rules-2008",
  "path": "rule/8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991",
  "text": "In rule 11AA—\n(a) in the heading, omit “family assistance order”;\n(b) for paragraph (1), substitute—\n“(1) This rule applies where an officer of the service or a Welsh family proceedings officer is acting under a duty in accordance with —\n(a) section 11E(7) (providing the court with information as to the making of a contact activity direction or a contact activity condition);\n(b) section 11G(2) (monitoring compliance with a contact activity direction or a contact activity condition);\n(c) section 11H(2) (monitoring compliance with a contact order);\n(d) section 16(6) (providing a family assistance order report to the court); and\n(e) section 16A (making a risk assessment).”;\n(c) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) for “preparing a family assistance order report or a risk assessment” substitute “acting under a duty referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to (e)”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), for “the report or assessment” substitute “any report or risk assessment he makes”; and\n(iii) in sub-paragraph (b), for “the report or assessment” the first time it appears, substitute “any report or risk assessment he makes”;\n(d) in paragraphs (3) and (6), for “the report or assessment” substitute “any report or risk assessment he makes”;\n(e) in paragraph (8), for “a family assistance order report” substitute “a report as a result of acting under a duty referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to (d)”; and\n(f) in paragraph (9), for “a family assistance order report or risk assessment” substitute “a report or assessment prepared as a result of acting under a duty referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to (e)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2858/rule/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:28.428032+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."
}