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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991/rule-2.54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991/rule-2.54.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1247",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991",
  "path": "rule/2.54",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.54",
  "heading": "Application by parent, guardian etc for ancillary relief in respect of children",
  "text": "(1) Any of the following persons, namely—\n(a) a parent or guardian of any child of the family,\n(b) any person in whose favour a residence order has been made with respect to a child of the family, and any applicant for such an order,\n(c) any other person who is entitled to apply for a residence order with respect to a child,\n(d) a local authority, where an order has been made under section 30(1)(a) of the Act of 1989 placing a child in its care,\n(e) the Official Solicitor, if appointed the guardian ad litem of a child of the family under rule 9.5, and\n(f) a child of the family who has been given leave to intervene in the cause for the purpose of applying for ancillary relief,\nmay apply for an order for ancillary relief as respects that child by notice in Form M11.\n(2) In this rule “residence order” has the meaning assigned to it by section 8(1) of the Act of 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
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      "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)",
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      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "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": "words substituted",
      "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/2.54",
    "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."
}