Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2005.

(2) Rules 1, 3(b), 16 to 19, 25 and 26 shall come into force on 1st April 2005 and the remainder of these Rules shall come into force on 4th April 2005.

(3) In these Rules a reference to a rule or Appendix by number alone is a reference to the rule or Appendix so numbered in the Family Proceedings Rules 1991(1).

(1)

S.I. 1991/1247; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/456, 1992/2067, 1993/295, 1994/2165, 1994/3155, 1996/816, 1997/1056, 1998/1901, 2000/2267, 2001/821, 2003/184, 2003/2839.