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The County Court (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016

S.R. 2016/377 · Made 17 October 2016

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County Courts

Procedure

Made 17th October 2016

Coming into operation 7th November 2016

The County Court Rules Committee makes and the Department of Justice, after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, allows the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 47 of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980f1 and paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1986f2.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1980/397 (N.I. 3); to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4) and paragraph 33 of Schedule 17 to, and paragraph 118 of Schedule 18 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976)

f2

S.I. 1996/3158 (N.I. 22); as amended by S.I. 2004/1994 (N.I.17) and the Licensing Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 24)(N.I.)

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Citation, commencement and interpretation
  3. 3Amendments to the principal Rules
  4. Signature
  5. Schedule Schedule
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Rules may be cited as the County Court (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 7th November 2016.

2Citation, commencement and interpretation

In these Rules—

(a)

“the principal Rules” means the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981f1; and

(b)

a reference to an Order, Rule, paragraph, Appendix or Form is a reference to that Order, Rule, paragraph, Appendix or Form so numbered in the principal Rules.

3Amendments to the principal Rules

The principal Rules are amended as follows—

(1)

In Order 48, Rule 3—

(a)

in paragraph (3), for “or indoor arena” substitute “, indoor arena or outdoor stadium”; and

(b)

after paragraph (3), insert—

“(4)

Where the application is for the grant or declaration of the final grant of a licence for an outdoor stadium, evidence that the premises comply with Article 2AA(c) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 as being premises which are designated in Regulations as a stadium which the Department considers to be of importance to the whole of Northern Ireland shall be given at the hearing of the application by production of a copy of the relevant Regulations.”.

(2)

Appendix 1 shall be amended as follows—

(a)

by inserting after Form 200A, the new Form 200B in the Schedule to these Rules: and

(b)

in Form 209, after “[k]”, insert “[l]”.

Signature

D K McFarland

Alistair F Devlin

Patrick Mullarkey

R Collins

Fiona Fee

Dated 28th September 2016

In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 47(4) of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980, I allow these Rules.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Justice on 17th October 2016

Claire Sugden

Minister of Justice

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981 (S.R. 1981 No. 225) to make provision relating to an application for the grant of a liquor licence for an outdoor stadium.