{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-8.36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-8.36.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/8.36",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "8.36",
  "heading": "Application for registration, recognition or non-recognition of a judgment",
  "text": "(1) Any interested person may apply to the court for an order that the judgment be registered, recognised or not recognised.\n(2) Except for an application under rule 8.46, an application for registration, recognition or non-recognition must be made to the Master.\n(3) In the case of an application under ... the 1996 Hague Convention, a translation of the judgment must be supplied.\n(4) Where any document required by rules 8.33 to 8.63 or by the direction of the court under rule 8.44 is not in the English language, the applicant must supply a translation of each such document into English by a notary public or a person qualified for the purpose, authenticated by witness statement or affidavit.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules 8.33-8.63 substituted for rules 8.33-8.48 (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(5), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 8.36(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/235), rules 1(1), 2(18) (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/8.36",
    "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."
}