Article 6 Duty to give statement of other proceedings

A party to proceedings for or relating to a custody order in a magistrates' court in England and Wales who knows of other proceedings (including proceedings out of the jurisdiction and concluded proceedings) which relate to the child concerned shall provide to the court a statement giving the information set out in Form 2 in the Schedule to these Rules, and, for this purpose, the clerk of a magistrates' court in which proceedings for or relating to a custody order are pending shall, as soon in those proceedings as may be practicable, notify the parties of the provisions of this rule by sending to each party a notice in the said Form 2 or in a similar form.

Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in relation to proceedings commenced in a magistrates' court before 4th April 1988.