Rule 6.1 Interpretation

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
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 6.1 l(4)(a) amended by Family Proceedings 1994 rule 5
rule 2.45A-2.45B inserted by Family Proceedings 2003 rule 3

In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires–

(a)

“the Act” means the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985^f1 and words or expressions bear the same meaning as in that Act;

(b)

“the Hague Convention” means the convention defined in section 1(1) of the Act and “the European Convention” means the convention defined in section 12(1) of the Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1985 c. 60.