Rule 2.51 Indorsement and certificate of decree absolute

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

rules 10.24-10.25 added by Family Proceedings 1993 rule 6
rule 2.51 A added by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 6
rules 2.71-2.77 revoked by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 19
rules 3.1-3.20 (Pt.III) 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) by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 20
rules 3.21-3.23 added by Family Proceedings 1993 rule 4
rules 2.71-2.77 added by Family Proceedings 1997 rule 4
rule 2.45A-2.45B inserted by Family Proceedings 2003 rule 3

(1)

Where a decree nisi is made absolute, the proper officer shall made an indorsement to that effect on the decree, stating the precise time at which it was made absolute.

(2)

On a decree nisi being made absolute, the proper officer shall send to the petitioner and the respondent a certificate in Form M9 or MIO whichever is appropriate, authenticated by the seal of the divorce county court or registry from which is issued.

(3)

A central index of decrees absolute shall be kept under the control of the principal registry and any person shall be entitled to require a search to be made therein, and to be furnished with a certificate of the result of the search, on payment of the prescribed fee.

(4)

A certificate in Form M9 or M10 that a decree nisi has been made absolute shall be issued to any person requiring it on payment of the prescribed fee.