{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-matrimonial-proceedings-etc-amendment-rules-1997/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1894",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc) (Amendment) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-matrimonial-proceedings-etc-amendment-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "Rule 2(1) shall be amended—\n(a) by inserting, in the definition of “application” after the words “the Act”, the words “or, as the case may be, the Family Law Act 1996”;\n(b) by omitting, in the definition of “court”, the words “(save where section 16(5) of the Act applies)”;\n(c) by omitting the definition of “family protection order”; and\n(d) by substituting, for the definition of “form”, the following—\n““form” means a form in Schedule 1 to these Rules and, where a form is referred to by number, means the form so numbered in that Schedule, with such variation as the circumstances of the particular case may require;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1894/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:59:23.610229+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."
}