{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/28",
  "legislation_title": "County Courts Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Money recoverable by statute.",
  "text": "The county court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine an action for the recovery of a sum recoverable by virtue of any enactment for the time being in force, if—\n(a) it is not provided by that or any other enactment that such sums shall only be recoverable in the High Court or shall only be recoverable summarily; . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "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)(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": "F2",
      "text": "S. 16(b) and words in s. 16(a) repealed by S.I. 1991/724, art. 2(8), Schedule PartI"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16 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/16",
    "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."
}