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The Contracting Out of Functions (Court Staff) Order 1999

S.I. 1999/1013 · Made 30 March 1999

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COUNTY COURTS

Made 30th March 1999

Laid before Parliament 30th March 1999

Coming into force 26th April 1999

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 27(3) of the Courts Act 1971f1, having consulted the senior judges, hereby makes the following Order–

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1971 c. 23; section 27 was amended by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (C.40), Schedule 16, paragraph 2.

Contents

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

1

This Order may be cited as the Contracting Out of Functions (Court Staff) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 26th April 1999.

2

The Lord Chancellor may enter into a contract for the provision, for the purposes mentioned in section 27(1) of the Courts Act 1971, of officers and staff to provide information technology related services in the county courts.

3

The Contracting out of Functions (Court Staff) Order 1996f1and the Contracting Out of Functions (Court Staff) (Amendment) Order 1996f2are hereby revoked.

Signature

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 30th March 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order enables the Lord Chancellor to enter into a contract for the provision of staff to provide information technology related services in the county courts. It revokes the Contracting Out of Functions (Court Staff) Order 1996 (as amended) which detailed the functions that could be carried out by reference to certain provisions of the County Court Rules 1981 (S.I. 1981/1687). The County Court Rules are replaced by the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (S.I. 1998/3132).