Part V E+W Family Business: Distribution and Transfer

Preliminary E+W

32 What is family business. E+W

In this Part of this Act—

• “family business” means business of any description which in the High Court is for the time being assigned to the Family Division and to no other Division by or under section 61 of (and Schedule 1 to) the [F1 Senior Courts Act 1981];

• “family proceedings” means proceedings which are family business;

• F2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• “matrimonial cause” means an action for divorce, nullity or marriage, [F3 or judicial separation];

F2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Act substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 1(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)

F2 Words in s. 32 omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 89; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)

F3 Words substituted by Family Law Act 1986 (c. 55, SIF 49:3), ss. 68(1), 69(5), Sch. 1 para. 27