The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1997
These Rules amend the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 so as to–provide for the making of applications under Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996 and for bringing appeals against orders made on such applications (rules 2 and 5 to 7, 8(b), 8(c) and 9);make provision where the court includes an exclusion requirement in an interim care order or an emergency protection order (rules 3 and 4, 8(a));require a petitioner to produce the written consent of the respondent to the grant of a divorce decree before the court will direct that, in the absence of an acknowledgement of service, the respondent has been duly served (rule 10);make some minor corrections (rules 11, 14, 15 and 19);prevent the statement of arrangements for the children being available for inspection (rule 12);define the period for which a cause is to be treated as pending for the purposes of rule 2.40(1) (which requires applications relating to children to be made in the cause where a cause is pending) (rule 13);require applications under the Hague Convention and the European Convention (within the meaning of the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c. 60)) to be issued out of the principal registry of the Family Division in London (rule 16);make some minor amendments to rule 7.2 (committal and injunction) in its application to proceedings in the principal registry of the Family Division (rule 17); andenable the court to direct a next friend or guardian ad litem to take part in proceedings where the court is considering whether to allow a minor to proceed without such a person (rule 18).