Article 10 Transfer from one county court to another

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art 10 rev in pt by Children (Allocation of Proceedings) 2001 arts 3, 5(a)
art 10 am by Children (Allocation of Proceedings) 2001 arts 3, 5(b)
art.6, made arts.6(1), 10(1), 12(1), 13(1) and amended by Children (Allocation of Proceedings) 1993 art.4(a)(b)
art.10, made arts.6(1), 10(1), 12(1), 13(1) and amended by Children (Allocation of Proceedings) 1993 art.4(a)(b)
art.10(2) added by Children (Allocation of Proceedings) 1993 art.4(c)
art.12, made arts.6(1), 10(1), 12(1), 13(1) and amended by Children (Allocation of Proceedings) 1993 art.4(a)(b)
art.13, made arts.6(1), 10(1), 12(1), 13(1) and amended by Children (Allocation of Proceedings) 1993 art.4(a)(b)
arts.6(2)(c), 10(2)(c), 12(2)(c), 13(2)(c) amended by Children (Allocation of Proceedings) 1994 art.4

Subject to articles 15 to 17, a county court (the “transferring court”) shall transfer proceedings under the Act or under the Adoption Act 1976 to another county court (the “receiving court”) where–

(a)

the transferring court, having regard to the principle set out in section 1(2), considers the transfer to be in the interests of the child, and

(b)

the receiving court is–

(i)

of the same class or classes, within the meaning of article 2, as the transferring court, or

(ii)

to be presided over by a judge or district judge who is specified by directions under section 9 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990^f1 for the same purposes as the judge or district judge presiding over the transferring court.

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Footnotes

f1: 1990 c. 41.