{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-constitution-rules-1991/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-constitution-rules-1991/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1405",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-constitution-rules-1991",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules, unless a contrary intention appears–\nany reference to a rule shall be construed as a reference to a rule contained in these Rules and any reference in a rule to a paragraph shall be construed as a reference to a paragraph of that rule;\n“commission area” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1 of the Act of 1979 but does not include the inner London area or the City of London;\n“inner London area” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2(1)(a) of the Act of 1979;\n“panel” means “family panel”, within the meaning of section 92 of the Act of 1989;\n“petty sessions area” has the meaning assigned to it by section 4 of the Act of 1979 but does not include the inner London area or any petty sessional division thereof, or the City of London;\n“stipendiary magistrate” means a magistrate appointed under section 13 of the Act of 1979;\n“the Act of 1979” means the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 ;\n“the Act of 1989” means the Children Act 1989 .\n(2) Any reference in these Rules to a justice for a petty sessions area shall be construed as a reference to a justice who ordinarily acts in and for that area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3367",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution) (Amendment) Rules 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3367",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution) (Amendment) Rules 2003"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1405/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:39.702744+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."
}