Rule 6.5 Defendants

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 2.45A-2.45B inserted by Family Proceedings 2003 rule 3

The defendants to an application under the Act shall be–

(a)

the person alleged to have brought into the United Kingdom the child in respect of whom an application under the Hague Convention is made;

(b)

the person with whom the child is alleged to be;

(c)

any parent or guardian of the child who is within the United Kingdom and is not otherwise a party;

(d)

the person in whose favour a decision relating to custody has been made if he is not otherwise a party; and

(e)

any other person who appears to the court to have a sufficient interest in the welfare of the child.