{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/30",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Power to make consequential amendments of Part III.",
  "text": "(1) If any amendment by the Family Law Act 1996 of Part II or IV of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 comes into force before the day on which any provision of this Part comes into force, the Lord Chancellor may by order make such consequential amendment of that provision as he thinks fit.\n(2) No order under this section may be made unless a draft of the order has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1996 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1973 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 25 partly in force: s. 25 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent (11.11.1999), see s. 89(1)(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/30/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:37.576921+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."
}