The Family Procedure Rules 2010, SI 2010/2955, r 31.17 currently provide that a registered order cannot be enforced until the time limit for appeals has expired.
Legislation Affected
SI 2010/2955 amended
Summary
Legislative Background
The time limit for appeals is set at one or two months (two months if the person bringing the appeal is habitually resident outside the UK).
What’s Changing?
The Rules amend the Family Procedure Rules 2010, SI 2010/2955, r 31.17.
They give the court a discretion to permit urgent enforcement where necessary to secure a child’s welfare notwithstanding the general position that enforcement is suspended pending expiry of relevant appeal periods.
The amendment is necessary in order to comply with the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Health Service Executive v SC and AC, Attorney General intervening (case no
