{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/28",
  "legislation_title": "County Courts Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "General jurisdiction in actions of contract and tort.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2), the county court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action founded on contract or tort ....\n(2) The county court shall not, except as in this Act provided, have jurisdiction to hear and determine—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) any action in which the title to ... any toll, fair, market or franchise is in question; or\n(c) any action for libel or slander.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in ss. 15-25 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 10(1)(b); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(1) repealed by S.I. 1991/724, art. 2(8), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in ss. 15-25 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 10(1)(a); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 15(2)(a) repealed by S.I. 1991/724, art. 2(8), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(2)(b) repealed by S.I. 1991/724, art. 2(8), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 15(3) repealed by S.I. 1991/724, art. 2(8), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 15 excluded by Legal Aid Act 1988 (c. 34, SIF 77:1), s. 39(4)S. 15 extended by S.I. 1991/724, art. 2(1)(l)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/28/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:30.128313+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."
}