{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984/section-31Q",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984/section-31Q.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/31Q",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31Q",
  "heading": "Prohibition of cross-examination in person: introductory",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“family proceedings” means—\n(a)proceedings in the family court,\n(b)proceedings in the Family Division of the High Court which are business assigned, by or under section 61 of (and Schedule 1 to) the Senior Courts Act 1981, to that Division of the High Court and no other, and\n(c)proceedings in the civil division of the Court of Appeal arising out of proceedings within paragraph (a) or (b);\n“witness”, in relation to any proceedings, includes a party to the proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4B inserted (21.7.2022) by Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (c. 17), ss. 65, 90(6); S.I. 2022/840, regs. 1(2), 2(a) (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/42/section/31Q",
    "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."
}