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(2) The Family Justice Rules Committee may make Family Justice Rules regulating and prescribing the procedure (including the method of pleading) and the practice to be followed in the Family Division of the High Court, the Family Courts and the Youth Courts in all causes and matters whatsoever in or with respect to which those Courts respectively have for the time being jurisdiction (including the procedure and practice to be followed in the Registry of the Family Justice Courts) and any matters incidental to or relating to any such procedure or practice.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2), Family Justice Rules may be made for the following purposes:
- (a) prescribing the manner in which, and the time within which, any application which under this Act or any other written law is to be made to the Family Division of the High Court, a Family Court or a Youth Court shall be made;
- (b) prescribing what part of the business which may be transacted and of the jurisdiction and powers which may be exercised by a Judge, or a judge of a Family Court or Youth Court, in court or in chambers may be transacted or exercised by the Registrar (including provisions for appeals against decisions of the Registrar);
- (c) regulating and prescribing the procedure to be followed on appeals from a Family Court or Youth Court to the High Court, and the procedure in connection with the transfer of any proceedings from a Family Court to the High Court or from the High Court to a Family Court;
- (d) prescribing the scales of allowances, costs and fees to be taken, or paid to any party or witness, in any proceedings in the Family Division of the High Court, a Family Court or a Youth Court, and for regulating any matters relating to the costs of proceedings in such Courts;
- (e) enabling proceedings—
- (i) to be commenced in a Family Court against the estate of a deceased person (whether by the appointment of a person to represent the estate or otherwise) where no
