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Section 40A: Process for making rules of court under section 40

Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 · 1984 c. 42View on legislation.gov.uk

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Part V: Family Business: Distribution and Transfer

OMITTED FROM CURRENT TEXT on 2011-04-06.

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Family proceedings rules must be—

signed by a majority of the members of the Family Proceedings Rule Committee, and
submitted to the Lord Chancellor.

The Lord Chancellor may allow or disallow rules so made.

If the Lord Chancellor disallows rules, he must give the Committee written reasons for doing so.

Rules so made and allowed by the Lord Chancellor—

come into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor directs, and
are to be contained in a statutory instrument to which the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 applies as if the instrument contained rules made by a Minister of the Crown.

A statutory instrument containing Family Proceedings rules is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

In this section and section 40B “Family Proceedings rules” means rules of court made under section 40.

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