Article 13 Automatic directions

After Order 16, rule 6(1), there shall be inserted the following new paragraph–

“(1A)

Nothing in paragraph (1) shall require the proper officer to fix a day in an action to which Order 17, rule 11 applies unless

(a)

before it was transferred to a county court the action had been set down for hearing in the High Court; or

(b)

a request for a day to be fixed is made pursuant to directions under Order 17, rule 11.”.