Schedule SECOND PROVISIONS OF PART I OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ACT 1956 EXTENDED TO THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS AND ADAPTATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS THERETO

In subsections (1), (3), (5), (6) and (7), for the reference to the High Court, the Liverpool Court of Passage, and any county court there shall be substituted a reference to the Supreme Court of the Turks and Caicos Islands;

In subsection (2) the words “the High Court” shall be deleted and the words “the Supreme Court of the Turks and Caicos Islands” shall be substituted;

In subsection (4) the words “High Court and (where there is such jurisdiction) the Admiralty jurisdiction of the Liverpool Court of Passage or any county court” shall be deleted and the words “Supreme Court of the Turks and Caicos Islands” shall be substituted;

In subsection (8) the words “England and Wales” shall be deleted and the words “the Turks and Caicos Islands” shall be substituted.

Subsection (1) shall be deleted and the following subsection shall be substituted:—

“(1)

No court in the Turks and Caicos Islands shall entertain an action in personam to enforce a claim to which this section applies unless—

(a)

the defendant has his habitual residence or a place of business in the Turks and Caicos Islands; or

(b)

the cause of action arose within the territorial waters of the Turks and Caicos Islands; or

(c)

an action arising out of the same incident or series of incidents is proceeding in the court or has been heard and determined in the court.

In this subsection “territorial waters of the Turks and Caicos Islands” include any port, dock or harbour in the Turks and Caicos Islands; ” include any port, dock or harbour in the Turks and Caicos Islands;

In subsection (2) the words “in England and Wales” shall be deleted and the words “in the Turks and Caicos Islands” shall be substituted, and the words “outside England and Wales” shall be deleted and the words “outside the Turks and Caicos Islands” shall be substituted;

In subsection (5) the words “the High Court” shall be deleted and the words “the Supreme Court of the Turks and Caicos Islands” shall be substituted;

Subsection (6) shall be omitted.

Subsection (1) shall be deleted and the following subsection shall be substituted:—

“(1)

Section six hundred and eighty-eight of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (which relates to the detention of ships by customs officers in certain cases) shall cease to have effect, but nothing in this Part of the Act affects the provisions of section thirty-three of the Wreck and Salvage Ordinance of the Turks and Caicos Islands (which relates to the power of a receiver of wreck to detain a ship in respect of a salvage claim).”;

Subsection (2) shall be omitted.