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SCHEDULEAMENDMENTS TO RULES

The Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules 1988

31.  In rule 30(1) of those Rules–

(a)the word “and” which follows the words “voluntary organisation;” in the second place where they occur shall be omitted, and

(b)there shall be inserted at the end the following words–

; and a local authority or voluntary organisation which is a party to any such proceedings and a parent who is the complainant in any such proceedings in a case where the mother and father of the child were not married to each other at the time of his birth shall send a notice specifying the time and place fixed for the hearing of the complaint to any person who is known to the local authority, voluntary organisation or parent, as the case may be, to have made an application for an order under section 4 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (parental rights and duties of father) which has not yet been determined..