{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-rules-1991/article-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-rules-1991/article-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1395",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-rules-1991",
  "path": "article/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Notification of consent",
  "text": "Consent for the purposes of–\n(a) section 16(3),\n(b) section 33(7), or\n(c) paragraph 19(1) of Schedule 2,\nshall be given either–\n(i) orally in court, or\n(ii) in writing to the justices' clerk or the court and signed by the person giving his consent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1395/article/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:46.444420+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."
}