The Magistrates' Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings) Rules 1980
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 15 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949(a), after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 15, hereby makes the following Rules:-

(a) 1949 c. 101, as extended by section 122 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 (c. 55) and sections 6(8), 9(5), 12(2), 17(2) and 23(1) of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22).