{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-enforcement-of-children-act-1989-contact-orders-rules-2008/rule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-enforcement-of-children-act-1989-contact-orders-rules-2008/rule-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2859",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Enforcement of Children Act 1989 Contact Orders) Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-enforcement-of-children-act-1989-contact-orders-rules-2008",
  "path": "rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989;\n“the 1991 Rules” means the Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991; and\n“magistrates’ court” has the meaning given in section 148 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c.41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1395. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1991/1991, 1992/2068, 1994/2166 and 3156, 1997/1895, 2001/615 and 818, 2003/2840, 2004/3376, 2005/229, 413, 585, 617 and 2930 and 2007/2188."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 148 was amended by section 109(1) of and paragraph 248 of Schedule 8 to the Courts Act 2003."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2859/rule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:27.640092+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."
}