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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-order-1983/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-order-1983/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/713",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Courts Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-order-1983",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of section 55(1) of the County Courts Act 1959:—\n(a) where the word “Admiralty” appears in the second column of Schedule 3 to this Order opposite a place named in the first column the county court at that place shall be appointed to have Admiralty jurisdiction;\n(b) the district of a county court not appointed to have Admiralty jurisdiction shall be assigned for Admiralty purposes to the Admiralty county court named in the third column of Schedule 3 to this Order opposite the name of the place at which the court is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2923",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Courts (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1999"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/713/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:02:20.552133+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."
}