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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991/rule-1.4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1247",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991",
  "path": "rule/1.4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1.4",
  "heading": "County court proceedings in principal registry",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of these rules, matrimonial proceedings pending at any time in the principal registry which, if they had been begun in a divorce county court, would be pending at that time in such a court, shall be treated, for the purposes of these rules and of any provision of the County Court Rules 1981 and the County Courts Act 1984, as pending in a divorce county court and not in the High Court.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a divorce county court in any provision of these rules which relates to the commencement or prosecution of proceedings in a divorce county court, or the transfer of proceedings to or from such a court, includes a reference to the principal registry.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 28."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "am. (references to any of rules 2.52-2.70 shatl be read as references to those rules as they were before these rules came into force)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1012",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
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    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1056",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/184",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2922",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 5) Rules 2005"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2922",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 5) Rules 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2922",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 5) Rules 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "comma inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2922",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 5) Rules 2005"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1247/rule/1.4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:43:52.905656+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."
}