{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-4.31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-4.31.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/4.31",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.31",
  "heading": "Application by a court of another Member State or another Contracting State for transfer of the proceedings",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where a court of ... another Contracting State makes an application ... under Article 9 of the 1996 Hague Convention that the court having jurisdiction in relation to the proceedings transfer the proceedings, or a specified part of the proceedings, to the applicant court.\n(2) When the court receives the application, the proper officer or chief clerk will—\n(a) as soon as practicable, notify the Central Authority for Northern Ireland of the application; and\n(b) serve the application, and notice of the hearing on all other parties in Northern Ireland not less than 5 days before the hearing of the application.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules 4.28-4.39 substituted for rule 4.28 (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(4), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 4.31(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/235), rules 1(1), 2(7)(a) (with rule 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 4.31(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/235), rules 1(1), 2(7)(b) (with rule 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/322/rule/4.31",
    "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."
}