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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.