{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-2.46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-2.46.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/322",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "rule/2.46",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.46",
  "heading": "Decrees and orders",
  "text": "(1) Every decree, [ every civil partnership order, every other order made in open court] and every other order which is required to be drawn up shall be drawn up—\n(a) in the case of a decree or order pronounced or made in the High Court, in the Matrimonial Office;\n(b) in the case of a decree or order pronounced or made in [ the county court], in the county court office;\nand shall have affixed thereto the seal of the office in which it is drawn up.\n(2) C.C.R. Order 33, rule 4(1) (which deals with the lodgment of a decree) shall not apply to a decree [ or civil partnership order] pronounced in a cause pending in [ the county court].\n(3) The chief clerk to whom the file of a cause has been sent under rule 2.31(3) shall, as soon as practicable after the cause has been tried, forward to the Matrimonial Office a copy of the decree or order pronounced or made in the cause.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 2.46(1)(b) substituted (31.10.2016) by The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/301), rules 1(1), 2(12)(a); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 2.46(2) substituted (31.10.2016) by The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/301), rules 1(1), 2(12)(b); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. 2005 No. 497 with effect from 05.12.05"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. 2005 No. 497 with effect from 05.12.05"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Words inserted by S.R. 2005 No. 497 with effect from 05.12.05"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. 2005 No. 497 with effect from 05.12.05"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/322/rule/2.46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:34:45.513001+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."
}