Paragraph 7 The Magistrates' Courts (Guardianship of Minors) Rules 1974

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. para. 4-13 revoked by Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) 1991 Sch. 3
Sch. para. 28-31 revoked by Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) 1991 Sch. 3
Sch. para. 2 revoked by Magistrates' Courts (Enforcement or Variation of Orders Made in Family Proceedings and Miscellaneous Provisions) 2011 Sch. 5
Sch. para. 21-27 revoked by Courts Act 2003 (Revocations, Savings and Transitional Provisions) 2005 Sch.

In rule 8(2)(a) of those Rules, for the words from “legal custody” to the words “Act of 1971” there shall be substituted the words “actual custody of the child and, if different, the person who has legal custody of the child”.