{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-2.4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-2.4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/2.4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.4",
  "heading": "Power to perform an act of the court",
  "text": "(1) Where these Rules provide for the court to perform any act then, except where an enactment, rule or practice direction provides otherwise, that act may be performed—\n(a) in relation to proceedings in the High Court, by any judge of that Court, including a Master, Admiralty Registrar, ICC Judge or District Judge; and\n(b) in relation to proceedings in the County Court, by any judge of the County Court.\n(2) A legal adviser, defined in paragraph 1.2(b) of Practice Direction 2E, may exercise the jurisdiction of the County Court specified in, and subject to, that Practice Direction.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 2.4 renumbered as rule 2.4(1) (1.10.2022) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/783), rules 1(1), 3(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 2.4(1)(a) substituted (1.10.2024) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/839), rules 1(1), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Rules substituted (22.4.2014) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/407), rules 2(1), 4(a)(i); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 2.4(b) substituted (22.4.2014) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/407), rules 2(1), 5(b); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Rule 2.4A renumbered as rule 2.4(2) (1.10.2022) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/783), rules 1(1), 3(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Rule 2.4 heading substituted (1.10.2022) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/783), rules 1(1), 3(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 2.4 in force at 26.4.1999, see Signature"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/2.4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:59.276840+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."
}