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The Civil Courts (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1998

S.I. 1998/2910 · Made 21 November 1998

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COUNTY COURTS

Made 21st November 1998

Laid before Parliament 25th November 1998

Coming into force

Article 4(a) 31st December 1998

Remainder 24th December 1998

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2(1) of the County Courts Act 1984f1, section 33(1) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984f2 and section 374(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986f3, hereby makes the following Order:–

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1984 c. 28.

f2

1984 c. 42.

f3

1986 c. 45.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Interpretation
  3. 3Amendments to the 1983 Order
  4. 4Amendments to the 1983 Order
  5. 5Amendments to the 1983 Order
  6. 6Amendments to the 1983 Order
  7. Signature
  8. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Civil Courts (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 24th December 1998, except for article 4(a), which shall come into force on 31st December 1998.

2Interpretation

In this Order, “the 1983 Order” means the Civil Courts Order 1983f1, and a Schedule referred to by number alone means the Schedule so numbered in that Order.

3Amendments to the 1983 Order

In Schedule 1:

(a)

“Camborne and Redruth” shall be deleted from its position in the second column opposite the entry for “Truro” in the first column;

(b)

“West Bromwich” shall be deleted from its position in the first and second columns.

4Amendments to the 1983 Order

In Schedule 3:

(a)

the entry relating to Loughborough shall be deleted;

(b)

the entries relating to Camborne, Hemel Hempstead and West Bromwich shall be deletedf1;

(c)

the word “Divorce” shall be inserted in Column 2 opposite the entry for Penzance in Column 1;

(d)

opposite the entry for Staines in Column 1, “Kingston-upon-Thames” shall replace “Slough” in Column 4.

5Amendments to the 1983 Order

In Schedule 4, paragraph 3 shall be deleted.

6Amendments to the 1983 Order

For the purpose of section 33(1) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, the County Court at Penzance is hereby designated as a divorce county court and court of trial.

Signature

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 21st November 1998.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Civil Courts Order 1983 so as to:

(a)

close Camborne and Redruth, Hemel Hempstead and West Bromwich County Courts on 24th December 1998 and Loughborough County Court on 31st December 1998;

(b)

confer divorce jurisdiction upon Penzance County Court;

(c)

transfer bankruptcy jurisdiction for the district of Staines County Court from Slough County Court to Kingston-upon-Thames County Court.