C1Part 7Procedure rules and practice directions

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Family Procedure Rules and practice directions

I1I279Process for making Family Procedure Rules

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The Family Procedure Rule Committee must, before making Family Procedure Rules—

a

consult such persons as they consider appropriate, and

b

meet (unless it is inexpedient to do so).

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Rules made by the Family Procedure Rule Committee must be—

a

signed by a majority of the members of the Committee, and

b

submitted to the Lord Chancellor.

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The Lord Chancellor may allow or disallow rules so made.

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

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Rules so made, F2and allowed by the Lord Chancellor—

a

come into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor directs, and

b

are to be contained in a statutory instrument to which the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 (c. 36) applies as if the instrument contained rules made by a Minister of the Crown.

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F3. . . a statutory instrument containing Family Procedure Rules is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

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