{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984/section-31Y",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984/section-31Y.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/31Y",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31Y",
  "heading": "Guidance for legal representatives appointed under section 31W(6)",
  "text": "(1) The Lord Chancellor may issue guidance in connection with the role which a qualified legal representative appointed under section 31W(6) in connection with any family proceedings is to play in the proceedings, including (among other things) guidance about the effect of section 31W(7).\n(2) A qualified legal representative appointed under section 31W(6) must have regard to any guidance issued under this section.\n(3) The Lord Chancellor may from time to time revise any guidance issued under this section.\n(4) The Lord Chancellor must publish—\n(a) any guidance issued under this section, and\n(b) any revisions of that guidance.",
  "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/31Y",
    "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."
}