{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984/section-31P",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984/section-31P.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/42",
  "legislation_title": "Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984",
  "path": "section/31P",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31P",
  "heading": "Orders, regulations and rules under Part 4A",
  "text": "(1) Any power of the Lord Chancellor to make an order, regulations or rules under this Part—\n(a) is exercisable by statutory instrument,\n(b) includes power to make different provision for different purposes, and\n(c) includes power to make supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) A statutory instrument that—\n(a) contains an order, regulations or rules made under this Part by the Lord Chancellor other than regulations under section 31M, and\n(b) is not subject to any requirement that a draft of the instrument be laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament,\nis subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 31B-31P inserted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 10 para. 1; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(d) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 31P(2) omitted (10.1.2020 for specified purposes, 6.4.2020 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (c. 33), s. 4(3), Sch. para. 15; S.I. 2020/24, regs. 2(b)(i), 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/42/section/31P",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:34:50.317478+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."
}