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The Civil Courts (Amendment No. 3) Order 1994

S.I. 1994/2626 · Made 11 October 1994

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SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES

COUNTY COURTS

Made 11th October 1994

Laid before Parliament 11th October 1994

Coming into force 2nd November 1994

he Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 99(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981f1, sections 2(1) and 26 of the County Courts Act 1984f2and by sections 117(4) and 374 of the Insolvency Act 1986f3, hereby makes the following Order:—

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1981 c. 54.

f2

1984 c. 28.

f3

1986 c. 45.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. 3Article 3
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Civil Courts (Amendment No. 3) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 2nd November 1994.

2

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

3

The 1983 Order shall be amended as follows—

(a)

in Schedule 1 the entry relating to Stockton on Tees shall be deleted; and

(b)

in Schedule 3—

(i)

the entry relating to Stockton-on-Tees shall be deletedf1;

(ii)

in the third column of the entry relating to Bishop Auckland, for “Stockton-on-Tees” there shall be substituted “Middlesborough”;

(iii)

in the third column of the entry relating to Darlington, for “Stockton-on-Tees” there shall be substituted “Middlesborough”; and

(iv)

in the fourth column of the entry relating to Hartlepool, for “Stockton-on-Tees” there shall be substituted “Middlesborough”.

Signature

Mackay of Clashfern, C

11th October 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Civil Courts Order 1983 so as to close the district registry of the High Court and the county court at Stockton-on-Tees. The Order also attaches the districts of the Bishop Auckland and Darlington County Courts to the Middlesborough County Court for the purposes of admiralty jurisdiction and assigns the district of the Hartlepool County Court to the Middlesborough County Court for the purposes of insolvency jurisdiction.