{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-remedies-regulations-1991/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-remedies-regulations-1991/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1222",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court Remedies Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-remedies-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a countycourt shall not grant prescribed relief or vary or revoke an order madeby the High Court granting such relief.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to—\n(a) any county court held by a judge of the Court of Appeal or judge ofthe High Court sitting as a judge for any county court district;\n(b) a patents county court held by a person nominated under section 291of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to sit as a judge of that court.\n(3) A county court may grant relief of a kind referred to in regulation2(b)—\n(a) when exercising jurisdiction in family proceedings within themeaning of Part V of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984;\n(b) for the purpose of making an order for the preservation, custody ordetention of property which forms or may form the subject matter ofproceedings, or\n(c) in aid of execution of a judgment or order made in proceedings in acounty court to preserve assets until execution can be levied upon them.\n4 Paragraph (1) shalll not—\n(a) affect or modify powers expressly conferred on a county court by orunder any enactment other than section 38 of the County Courts Act 1984;or\n(b) prevent a county court from varying an order granting prescribedrelief where all the parties are agreed on the terms of the variation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/206",
      "affecting_title": "The County Court Remedies (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/206",
      "affecting_title": "The County Court Remedies (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/879",
      "affecting_title": "The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) (No.2) Order 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/439",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Procedure (Modification of Enactments) Order 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/439",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Procedure (Modification of Enactments) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1222/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:44:03.821593+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."
}