PART 1 | Citation and commencement |
| 1. These Rules are the Family Justice (Protection from Harassment) Rules 2024 and come into operation on 15 October 2024. |
2.—(1) In these Rules —| “Act” means the Protection from Harassment Act 2014; |
| “common party”, in relation to any PH proceedings, means a person who is a party in both the PH proceedings and family proceedings related to the PH proceedings; |
| “expedited protection order” means an order made under section 13 of the Act; |
| “false statement order” means a correction order, a disabling order, a general correction order, a stop publication order or a targeted correction order; |
| “General Rules” means the Family Justice (General) Rules 2024 (G.N. No. S 720/2024); |
| “intended relevant party”, in relation to any PH proceedings, means any person against whom a claim is made, or an order is sought, in the PH proceedings; |
| “interim false statement order” means an interim disabling order, an interim notification order, an interim stop publication order or a targeted interim notification order; |
| “party”, in relation to any PH proceedings, includes an individual or entity against whom an order is sought in the PH proceedings; |
| “PH proceedings” means civil proceedings for orders under Part 3 of the Act and excludes claims under section 11 of the Act; |
“proper address” means —| (a) | in the case of a natural person, the person’s usual or last known address or the business address of the person’s solicitor; or | | (b) | in the case of an entity, its registered or principal office or, if none exists, its last known place of business or its solicitor’s address; |
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| “protection order” means an order made under section 12 of the Act. |
(2) In these Rules —| (a) | the following words have the same meanings as in section 2(1) of the Act: | | “author”, “communication”, “correction order”, “court”, “disabling order”, “entity”, “general correction order”, “interim disabling order”, “interim notification order”, “interim stop publication order”, “internet intermediary”, “internet intermediary service”, “offending communication”, “Protection from Harassment Court”, “publish”, “relevant party”, “statement”, “stop publication order”, “targeted correction order” and “targeted interim notification order”; and |
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| | (b) | family proceedings are related to PH proceedings if —| (i) | both of those proceedings involve any common issue of law or fact; or | | (ii) | the rights to relief claimed in both those proceedings are in respect of the same conduct or course of conduct. |
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| (3) The Forms to be used for the purposes of these Rules are those set out in practice directions (as defined in the General Rules), and any reference in these Rules to a numbered form (where the number may include alphanumeric characters) is to be construed as a reference to the current version of the form bearing the corresponding number which is set out in the practice directions. |
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| Application of General Rules |
3.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the General Rules apply, with the necessary modifications, to all PH proceedings in the Family Courts or appeals from such proceedings, and for this purpose a reference to “these Rules” in the General Rules includes a reference to these Rules.| (2) Parts 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 20 and 25 (Rule 6) of the General Rules do not apply to PH proceedings. |
| (3) These Rules prevail over the provisions of the General Rules to the extent of any inconsistency between them. |
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