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Family Law Week: Guide to statutory instruments coming into force on 22 April 2014
To access the individual statutory instrument , please click on the title of the relevant SI.
Access to Justice Act 1999 (Destination of Appeals) (Family Proceedings) Order 2014, SI 2014/620
Child Arrangements Order (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2014, SI 2014/852
This Order makes amendments to secondary legislation in consequence of section 12 of the Children and Families Act 2014, which removes the definition of "residence order" and "contact order" in section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 and replaces it with a new order, the "child arrangements order".
Children and Families Act 2014 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2014, SI 2014/793
Children and Families Act 2014 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2014, SI 2014/889
This Order brings into force the following provisions of the Children and Families Act 2014 relevant to family lawyers.
Children and Families Act 2014 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2014, SI 2014/1042
This Order makes transitional provisions in connection with the coming into force of provisions in Part 1 and Part 2 of the Children and Families Act 2014 ("the 2014 Act"), which were brought into force by S.I.s 2014/793 and 2014/889 on 22nd April 2014.
Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, SI 2014/812
Regulation 2(2)(a) adds regulation 5(1)(ga) to the 2013 Regulations, to provide that there is to be no determination in relation to the financial resources of an individual for the civil legal services of family mediation for a Mediation Information and Assessment meeting if that individual is a party to that meeting and another party to that meeting has already been assessed as financially eligible for family mediation for that meeting.
Regulation 2(2)(b) adds regulation 5(1)(ha) to the 2013 Regulations, to provide that there is to be no determination in relation to the financial resources of an individual for family mediation, if the individual is an applicant under the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction which was signed at the Hague on 25th October 1980 (which is referred to in these Regulations as the 1980 Hague Convention).
Regulation 3 provides that the amendments made by regulation 2 do not apply to pre-commencement applications for family mediation.
Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, SI 2014/814
These Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3098) ("the Procedure Regulations"). The Procedure Regulations make provision about the making and withdrawal of determinations that an individual qualifies for civil legal services under sections 9 and 10 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10) ("the Act"). These Regulations amend the evidence requirements relating to victims of, or persons at risk of, domestic violence, and persons with a child who has experienced, or is at risk of, child abuse, who seek civil legal services under the Act.
Part 2 of these Regulations provides that the amendments made in Part 1 do not apply to pre-commencement applications for civil legal services (within the meaning given by regulation 6).
Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014, SI 2014/586
These Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/422) ("the 2013 Regulations"), which make provision about payment by the Lord Chancellor to providers of civil legal services under arrangements made for the purpose of Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10).
Regulation 2 and the Schedule to these Regulations make amendments which are consequential on the introduction of the new single family court by the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22). The changes amend the provisions governing remuneration for matters which will be heard before the family court. Previously, remuneration varied according to the court before which proceedings were heard, such as the county court or magistrates' court. In future, most family matters will be heard by judges sitting in the family court. The amendments align remuneration with the new structure and jurisdiction of the family court. As a result, fees vary according to the person or court before whom proceedings are heard.
In addition to incorporating amendments consequential on the establishment of the family court, paragraphs 1(3), 2(2) and 2(4) of the Schedule amend the fees payable for legal representation in care or supervision proceedings under section 31 of the Children Act 1989. Paragraph 1(3) of the Schedule amends the fixed fees in table 2(c). Paragraph 2(4) of the Schedule inserts new table 9(aa), providing the rates which will be used to calculate the threshold at which cases escape the fixed fee scheme (pursuant to the Lord Chancellor's contract with providers) and the hourly rates which will apply thereafter. These amendments implement a 10% reduction in fees for preparation and attendance, attendance at court or conference with counsel and travel and waiting time. Both tables 2(c) and 9(aa) also implement the amendments made in consequence of the introduction of the family court.
Regulation 3 provides that the amendments made by paragraphs 1(3), 2(2) and 2(4) of the Schedule do not apply to pre-commencement applications for civil legal services. Regulations 4 to 6 define a "pre-commencement application".
Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014, SI 2014/954
Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014,SI 2014/820
The 1983 Order designated the places where both the district registries of the High Court and the county courts were located. It also specified those county courts which had jurisdiction in respect of proceedings under, amongst other statutes, the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act. However, following the implementation of both the single County Court and the family court, it is no longer necessary, or possible, to confer jurisdiction in this way.
Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) Order 2014, SI 2014/605
Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) (No.2) Order 2014, SI 2014/879
Schedules 10 and 11 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013, together with the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) Order 2014 make amendments to various primary provisions to reflect the coming into force of the family court. This Order makes amendments to secondary legislation for that same purpose. In particular it amends various statutory instruments to reflect the fact that matters referred to in them will be heard in the family court; and amends various other statutory instruments which make provision for proceedings in the magistrates' courts to remove from them references to matters which will no longer be heard in those courts.
Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Transitional and Saving Provision) Order 2014, SI 2014/956
These Rules make transitional and savings provision in relation to the establishment of the single family court. The single family court is established by section 17(3) of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22) (the "2013 Act").
Family Court (Composition and Distribution of Business) Rules 2014, SI 2014/840
Part 2 makes provision for how the family court should be composed, including when hearing appeals.
Part 3 gives powers to the President of the Family Division and the Lord Chief Justice (or his or her nominee) to authorise judges of specified levels to conduct specified business in the family court.
Part 4 makes provision for the chairmanship of the family court when it is composed of lay justices.
Part 5 deals with the distribution of business in the family court, including the initial allocation of the proceedings listed in Schedule 1, of emergency applications, of applications for the assessment of costs and of appeals. Provision is made for the initial allocation of applications made in existing proceedings or in connection with proceedings that have concluded, including setting out in Schedule 2 various remedies which may not be granted by certain judges, or levels of judges, in the family court. Provision is also made for the initial allocation of other proceedings, by reference to the factors specified in rule 20(2).
Part 6 makes provision for the President of the Family Division to issue guidance on the application and interpretation of Part 5, after consulting the Lord Chancellor or, in certain circumstances, with the Lord Chancellor's agreement.
Family Court (Constitution of Committees: Family Panels) Rules 2014, SI 2014/842
Family Court (Contempt of Court) (Powers) Regulations 2014, SI 2014/833
Family Court Warrants (Specification of Orders) Order 2014, SI 2014/832
Section 125A(3) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 ('the 1980 Act') allows the Lord Chancellor to specify provisions under which warrants of arrest, commitment, detention or distress can be issued by a justice of the peace or specify court orders of any description. The effect of such a specification is that a warrant of arrest, commitment, detention or distress issued by a justice of the peace under a specified provision or for the enforcement of a specified court order may be executed by a civilian enforcement officer.
This Order specifies orders of the family court for the purposes of section 125A(3) of the 1980 Act with the effect that civilian enforcement officers may execute warrants of arrest, commitment, detention or distress issued by a justice of the peace (who will for the purposes of the family court be District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) or justices of the peace who are not District Judges (Magistrates' Courts)) for the enforcement of an order of the family court.
A civilian enforcement officer is defined by section 125A(2) of the 1980 Act as a person who is employed by a prescribed class of authority which performs functions in relation to any area specified in the warrant and who is authorised to execute warrants.
Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2014, SI 2014/667
These Rules amend the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (S.I. 2010/2955) ("the FPR 2010"). The amendments made to the FPR 2010 by rules 3 to 44 of these Rules are made to reflect the creation of the family court, to insert a new Part 37, and to make some adjustments to the appeals rules in Part 30.
Provision in respect of the family court is made in section 17 of, and Schedules 10 and 11 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22). The family court, and the High Court, have jurisdiction to deal with family proceedings.
The jurisdiction formerly exercised by magistrates' courts and county courts in relation to family proceedings, and enforcement of orders made in family proceedings, held by magistrates' courts and county courts, is removed by provision in the Crime and Courts Act 2013.
Part 2 (Application and interpretation);
Part 9 (Applications for a financial remedy);
Part 10 (Applications under Part 4 of the Family Law Act 1996);
Part 11 (Applications under Part 4A of the Family Law Act 1996);
Part 23 (Miscellaneous rules about evidence);
Part 25 (Experts and assessors);
Part 27 (Hearings and directions appointments);
Part 29 (Miscellaneous);
Part 30 (Appeals);
Part 32 (Registration and enforcement of orders);
Part 33 (Enforcement).
These Rules also introduce a requirement to obtain permission to appeal from the decision of a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) and new time limits for filing an appellant's notice and a respondent's notice where there is an appeal or application for permission to appeal against a case management decision.
Family Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2014, SI 2014/843
to provide for a court process for proceedings for orders under new section 51A(2) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c.38) as inserted by section 9 of the 2014 Act relating to post-adoption contact and variation and revocation of these orders;
to make rules under and amend rules in consequence of section 10 of the 2014 Act which creates a new statutory requirement for a prospective applicant to attend a family mediation information and assessment meeting before making certain family applications;
to make amendments in consequence of section 12 of the 2014 Act which replaces contact orders and residence orders with new child arrangements orders and on Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act which makes consequential amendments to primary legislation in relation to the new orders;
to make amendments in consequence of the requirements relating to expert evidence and children proceedings being contained in section 13 of the 2014 Act instead of rules of court;
to adjust the court process in consequence of the requirement inserted by section 14 of the 2014 Act into section 32 of the Children Act 1989 (c.41) for care and supervision proceedings and other proceedings under Part 4 of the 1989 Act to be resolved within 26 weeks and to facilitate the resolution of proceedings within that period;
to make amendments in consequence of the repeal by section 17 of the 2014 Act of section 41 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c.18) and section 63 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33); and
to create a duty on the court officer to serve applications and certain accompanying documents in certain private law children matters.
This Order amends the Family Proceedings Fees Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1054).
It increases fees payable in family proceedings.
It incorporates those fees relating to family proceedings which have been removed from the Magistrates' Courts Fees Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1052) on the establishment of the single family court.
Where fee 2.2 has been paid before this order comes into force, a refund of £1,360 is payable if a final order is made at a case management conference or case management hearing.
The schedule to this Order contains a new schedule showing all the fees payable in family proceedings.
Justices' Clerks and Assistants Rules 2014, SI 2014/603
These Rules authorise justices' clerks and assistants to justices' clerks to carry out certain functions of the new single family court. These Rules require justices' clerks and assistants to justices' clerks to refer matters back to the court where it would be inappropriate to carry out an authorised function.
These Rules are made as part of the establishment of the single family court.