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The Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2019

S.I. 2019/889 · Made 23 April 2019

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Senior Courts Of England And Wales

County Court, England And Wales

Made 23rd April 2019

Laid before Parliament 29th April 2019

Coming into force 30th April 2019

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 99(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981f1, having consulted the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with that section, makes the following Order.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1981 c. 54. Section 99 was amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), section 15(1) and Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraphs 114 and 143(1) to (3).

Contents

  1. 1Commencement and citation
  2. 2Amendments to the 2014 Order
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Commencement and citation

This Order may be cited as the Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2019 and shall come into force on 30th April 2019.

2Amendments to the 2014 Order

(1)

The Civil Courts Order 2014f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In the Schedule—

(a)

omit the following places specified in the first column—

(i)

Chichester; and

(ii)

Colchester;

(b)

omit the County Court hearing centres named in the second column corresponding to those places listed in sub-paragraph (a); and

(c)

in the second column, omit the references to the following County Court hearing centres—

(i)

Chippenham and Trowbridge; and

(ii)

Banbury.

Signature

Lucy Frazer

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

Ministry of Justice

23rd April 2019

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Civil Courts Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/819), which specifies the locations and names of district registries of the High Court in England and Wales.

The amendments—

(a)

remove references to places served by district registries which have either closed (Chichester) or will close on the date that this Order comes into force (Colchester); and

(b)

remove references to County Court hearing centres which have now also closed.