{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/28",
  "legislation_title": "County Courts Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-1984",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction by agreement in certain equity proceedings.",
  "text": "(1) If, as respects any proceedings to which this section applies, the parties agree, by a memorandum signed by them or by their respective legal representatives or agents, that the county court ... shall have jurisdiction in the proceedings, that court shall, notwithstanding anything in any enactment, have jurisdiction to hear and determine the proceedings accordingly.\n(2) Subject to subsection (3), this section applies to any proceedings in which the county court would have jurisdiction by virtue of—\n(a) section 113(3) of the Settled Land Act 1925,\n(b) section 63A of the Trustee Act 1925,\n(c) sections 3(7), . . .49(4), 66(4), 89(7), 90(3), 91(8), 92(2), 136(3), . . .181(2), 188(2) of, and paragraph 3A of Part III and paragraph 1(3A) and (4A) of Part IV of Schedule 1 to, the Law of Property Act 1925,\n(d) sections 17(2), 38(4), 41(1A), and 43(4) of the Administration of Estates Act 1925,\n(e) section 6(1) of the Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938,\n(f) sections 1(6A) and 5(11) of the Land Charges Act 1972, and\n(g) sections 23 . . . of this Act,\nbut for the limits of the jurisdiction of the court provided in those enactments.\n(3) This section does not apply to proceedings under section 1 of the Variation of Trusts Act 1958.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(1) substituted (1.4.1991) by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), s. 125(3), Sch. 18 para. 49(3); S.I. 1991/608, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "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": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(1) omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 10(2); 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": "Words in s. 24(2)(c) repealed by S.I. 1991/724, art. 2(8), Schedule PartI"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(2)(g) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 1 Group 4}"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1925 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1925 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1925 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1925 c. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1938 c. 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "1972 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "1958 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/28/section/24",
    "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."
}