{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-and-assistants-amendment-rules-2014/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-and-assistants-amendment-rules-2014/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/841",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices’ Clerks and Assistants (Amendment) Rules 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-and-assistants-amendment-rules-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Family Court, England And Wales\nMade 31st March 2014\nLaid before Parliament 1st April 2014\nComing into force in accordance with rule 1\nThe Lord Chancellor makes the following Rules in exercise of the power conferred by sections 31O(1) and 31P(1) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, with the agreement of the President of the Family Division as the judicial office holder nominated by the Lord Chief Justice under section 31O(8) of that Act.\nBefore making these Rules, the Lord Chancellor has consulted the Family Procedure Rule Committee in accordance with section 31O(1) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c.42. Sections 31O and 31P were inserted by the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22), Schedule 10, paragraph 1 (which, together with section 17(3) of that Act, establish the family court in England and Wales)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/841/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:20:53.309748+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."
}