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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991/rule-4.9",
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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/4.9",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.9",
  "heading": "Answer to application",
  "text": "(1) Within 14 days of service of an application for a section 8 order, each respondent shall file, and serve on the parties, an answer to the application in Form CHA1OA.\n(2) Within 14 days after service of an application under Schedule 1, each respondent shall file, and serve on the parties, an answer to the application in Form CHA13A.\n(3) Following service of an application to which this Part applies, other than an application under rule 4.3 or for a section 8 order, a respondent may, subject to paragraph (4), file a written answer, which shall be served on the other parties.\n(4) An answer under paragraph (3) shall, except in the case of an application under section 25, 31, 34, 38, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48 or 50, be filed, and served, not less than 2 days before the date fixed for the hearing of the application.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1994/3155",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 4) Rules 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
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    {
      "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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    {
      "type": "added",
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      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
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    {
      "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 inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/3375",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/3375",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/3375",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2922",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 5) Rules 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words 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/4.9",
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  },
  "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."
}