{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/913",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Applications by grandparents to be parties to proceedings.",
  "text": "(1) Where in any such proceedings as are mentioned in section 32A(1) of the Act of 1969 a grandparent of the relevant infant makes an application under section 32C of that Act, the circumstances in which the court may give leave for that grandparent to be made a party to the proceedings are those in which the court is satisfied that—\n(a) the grandparent, before the commencement of the proceedings, had a substantial involvement in the infant’s upbringing at any time during the infant’s lifetime; and\n(b) making the grandparent a party to the proceedings is likely to be in the interests of the welfare of the relevant infant.\n(2) The power of the court to give leave for a grandparent to be made a party to the proceedings shall also be exercisable before the hearing of the proceedings, and shall be so exercisable also by the justices' clerk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1991",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/913/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:06:18.954433+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."
}