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The Justices’ Clerks and Assistants (Amendment) Rules 2015

S.I. 2015/890 · Made 23 March 2015

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Family Court, England And Wales

Made 23rd March 2015

Laid before Parliament 26th March 2015

Coming into force 1st July 2015

The 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 1984f1, 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.

Before making these Rules, the Lord Chancellor has consulted the Family Procedure Rule Committee in accordance with section 31O(1) of that Act.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1984 c.42. Sections 31O and 31P were inserted by section 17(6) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendments to the Justices’ Clerks and Assistants Rules 2014
  3. 3Transitional provision
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Rules may be cited as the Justices’ Clerks and Assistants (Amendment) Rules 2015 and come into force on 1st July 2015.

2Amendments to the Justices’ Clerks and Assistants Rules 2014

In the table in the Schedule to the Justices’ Clerks and Assistants Rules 2014f1—

(a)

after the entry for CPA, sections 44(2) and (4), insert—

FPR rule 7.13(5)(b)Only in undefended cases
FPR rule 7.13(7)Only in undefended cases
FPR rule 7.13(8)Only in undefended cases

; and

(b)

after the entry for FPR rule 7.20(5), insert—

FPR rule 7.21(3)

3Transitional provision

The Justices’ Clerks and Assistants Rules 2014 as amended by these Rules apply from the date that these Rules come into force to any proceedings which were commenced in the family court but not disposed of before that date, as they apply to proceedings commenced after that date.

Signature

Simon Hughes

Minister of State

Ministry of Justice

23rd March 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Justices’ Clerks and Assistants Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/603). Rule 2 amends the table in the Schedule to those Rules to insert references to additional functions of the family court or of a judge of the family court which those Rules authorise justices’ clerks and assistants to justices’ clerks to carry out. Rule 3 makes transitional provision.

No separate impact assessment has been prepared for these Rules.