{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-4.16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-4.16.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/4.16",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.16",
  "heading": "Timing of proceedings",
  "text": "(1) Where these rules or other rules of court provide a time period within which or by which a certain act is to be performed in the course of proceedings to which this Part applies, that period may not be extended otherwise than by direction of the court under rule 4.15.\n(2) At the—\n(a) postponement or adjournment of any hearing or directions appointment in the course of proceedings to which this Part applies, or\n(b) conclusion of any such hearing or directions appointment other than one at which the proceedings are determined or so soon thereafter as is practicable, the court shall fix a date upon which the proceedings shall come before the court again for such purposes as the court directs; and the proper officer or chief clerk shall give notice to the parties, and to any guardian ad litem or welfare officer of the date fixed.\n(3) At the transfer to a court of proceedings to which this Part applies the court to which the proceedings are transferred shall as soon as possible fix a date upon which the proceedings shall come before the court for such purposes as the court directs; and the proper officer or chief clerk shall give notice to the parties and to any guardian ad litem or welfare officer of the date so fixed.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/322/rule/4.16",
    "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."
}