{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-amendment-no-2-order-1984/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-amendment-no-2-order-1984/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/1075",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Courts (Amendment No. 2) Order 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-amendment-no-2-order-1984",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order further amends the Civil Courts Order 1983 by:\n(a) transferring the district registry of the High Court at Whitehaven to Workington on the closure of the county court at Whitehaven;\n(b) establishing a county court at Colwyn Bay under the name of the Conwy and Colwyn County Court.\n(c) closing the county courts at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Bridgnorth, Conwy, Hinckley, Leominster, Stamford, Tonbridge and Whitehaven.\n(d) designating the Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge County Court as a divorce court and court of trial;\n(e) appointing the Workington County Court to have Admiralty jurisdiction;\n(f) transferring the assignment of the districts of the Carlisle County Court and the Penrith County Court to the Workington County Court for Admiralty purposes; and\n(g) transferring for bankruptcy and winding-up of companies purposes the attachment of the district of the Ludlow County Court to the Hereford County Court and the district of the Woolwich County Court to the Croydon County Court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1075/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:37:22.631469+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}