{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984/section-31Z",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-act-1984/section-31Z.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/31Z",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31Z",
  "heading": "Regulations under Part 4B",
  "text": "(1) Any power of the Lord Chancellor to make regulations 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) A statutory instrument containing regulations under this Part is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.",
  "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/31Z",
    "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."
}