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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1997/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1997/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1837",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the County Court Rules 1981 so as—\n(a) to reflect the change in name of chief clerk(rules 3(a) and 4);\n(b) to enable the proper officer to take oral examinations (or to nominate an officer of the court to do so) and to remove the requirement for that officer to be of a certain grade in the Court Service(rules 3(b) and 5);\n(c) to provide a procedure where a question arising in proceedings is transferred to a leasehold valuation tribunal for determination(rule 6);\n(d) to amend the accelerated possession procedure following the enactment (by the Housing Act 1996, section 96) of section 19A of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50) (rule 7);\n(e) to provide the procedure for making an application for an injunction against anti-social behaviour (rule 8);\n(f) to enlarge the circumstances in which a summons in a business list action may be served out of England and Wales (rule 9), and\n(g) to correct a cross reference in Order 42, rule 5 (subsequent procedure in default action against the Crown) (rule 10).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1837/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:04:39.655513+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."
}