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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991/rule-4.24",
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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/4.24",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.24",
  "heading": "Notification of consent",
  "text": "Consent for the purposes of–\n(a) section 16(3),\n(b) section 33(7), or\n(c) paragraph 19(3)(c) or (d) of Schedule 2,\nshall be given either–\n(i) orally in court, or\n(ii) in writing to the court signed by the person giving his consent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/456",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/456",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "renumbered (as rule 4.24(1))",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1893",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1893",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1893",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1997"
    },
    {
      "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": "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"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1247/rule/4.24",
    "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."
}