{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-court-distribution-of-business-order-1991/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-court-distribution-of-business-order-1991/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1210",
  "legislation_title": "The High Court (Distribution of Business) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-court-distribution-of-business-order-1991",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "There shall be assigned to the Family Division all business in theHigh Court of any of the following descriptions:—\n(a) all proceedings under:—\n(i) the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976;\n(ii) the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985;\n(iii) the Family Law Act 1986;\n(iv) section 30 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990; and\n(b) all proceedings for the purpose of enforcing an order made in anyproceedings of a type described in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to theSupreme Court Act 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1986 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1990 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Paragraph 3 was amended by the Children Act 1989(c.41), Schedule 11, paragraph 9 and Schedule 13, paragraph 45(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/986",
      "affecting_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2018/1413",
      "affecting_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (Remedial) Order 2018"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1210/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:44:07.359158+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."
}