{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-2.72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-2.72.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/2.72",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.72",
  "heading": "Consent orders",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) [, and rule 8.65], there shall be lodged with every application for a consent order under any [ Articles 25, 26, 26A)] [,26D] or 29 of the Order of 1978 [or Parts 1, 2, 3 [, 3A] and 8 of Schedule 15 to the Act of 2004], a draft of the order in the terms sought, endorsed with a statement signed by the respondent to the application signifying his agreement, and a statement of information which may be made in more than one document and shall include:\n(a) particulars of the duration of the marriage [ or civil partnership], the age of each party and of any minor or dependant child of the family;\n(b) an estimate in summary form of the approximate amount or value of the capital resources and net income of each party and of any minor child of the family;\n(c) what arrangements are intended for the accommodation of each of the parties and any minor child of the family;\n[(d whether either party has subsequently married or formed a civil partnership or has any present intention to do so or to cohabit with another person;]\n[(dd Where the order includes provision to be made under Article 26A, 26D, 27B or 27C of the Order of 1978 or under paragraphs 10, 14A, 20 and 21 of Schedule 15 to the Act of 2004, a statement confirming that the person responsible for the pension arrangement or the Board that has assumed responsibility for the pension arrangement in question has been served with the documents required by rule 2.73(11) or (12) or rule 2.73B(11) or (12) as the case may be and that no objection to such an order has been made by that person or by that Board within 21 days from such service.]\n(e) where the terms of the order provide for a transfer of property, a statement confirming that any mortgagee of that property has been served with notice of the application and that no objection to such a transfer has been made by the mortgagee within 14 days from such service; and\n(f) any other especially significant matters.\n(2) Where an application is made for a consent order varying an order for periodical payments, paragraph (1) shall be sufficiently complied with if the statement of information required to be lodged with the application includes only the information in respect of net income mentioned in paragraph (1)(b), and an application for a consent order for interim periodical payments pending the determination of an application for ancillary relief may be made in like manner.\n(3) Where the parties attend the hearing of an application for financial relief the court may dispense with the filing of a draft of the order and a statement of information in accordance with paragraph (1) and give directions for:\n(a) the order to be drawn; and\n(b) the information which would otherwise be required to be given, in such manner as it sees fit.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 2.72(1) inserted (25.3.2011 for specified purposes, 1.11.2012 in so far as not already in operation) by The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/64), rules 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. 2000 No. 329 with effect from 1.12.00"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Number inserted by S.R. 2011 No. 243 with effect from 25.07.11"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Words inserted by S.R. 2005 No. 497 with effect from 05.12.05"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph substituted by S.R. 2005 No. 497 with effect from 05.12.05"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph substituted by S.R. 2011 No. 243 with effect from 25 07.11"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/322/rule/2.72",
    "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."
}