The Family Procedure Rules 2010

[F1 Requirement for a penal notice on judgments and orders E+W

37.9.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a judgment or order to do or not do an act may not be enforced under rule 37.4 unless there is prominently displayed, on the front of the copy of the judgment or order served in accordance with this Chapter, a warning to the person required to do or not do the act in question that disobedience to the order would be a contempt of court punishable by imprisonment, a fine or sequestration of assets.

[F2 (2) The following may be enforced under rule 37.4 notwithstanding that the judgment or order does not contain the warning described in paragraph (1)—

(a) an undertaking to do or not do an act which is contained in a judgment or order; and

(b) an incoming protection measure.]

(3) In the case of—

(a) a section 8 order (within the meaning of section 8(2) of the Children Act 1989);

(b) an order under section 14A, 14B(2)(b), 14C(3)(b) or 14D of the Children Act 1989 enforceable by committal order[F3 ;]

[F4 (c) an order prohibiting contact with a child under section 51A(2)(b) of the 2002 Act,]

the court may, on the application of the person entitled to enforce the order, direct that the court officer issue a copy of the order, endorsed with or incorporating a notice as to the consequences of disobedience, for service in accordance with this rule, and no copy of the order shall be issued with any such notice endorsed or incorporated save in accordance with such a direction.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 37 inserted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/667), rules 44, Sch. (with rule 45)

F2 Rule 37.9(2) substituted (11.1.2015) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/3296), rules 1(2), 13 (with rule 15)

F3 Rule 37.9(3)(b): semicolon substituted for comma (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/843), rules 1, 52

F4 Rule 37.9(3)(c) inserted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/843), rules 1, 52