{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-jurisdiction-order-1981/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-jurisdiction-order-1981/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1123",
  "legislation_title": "The County Courts Jurisdiction Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-jurisdiction-order-1981",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to the transitional provisions set out in the Schedule to this Order, the enactments specified in column 1 of the following table shall be amended by substituting for the sum specified in column 2 opposite each such enactment, wherever such sum appears therein, the sum so specified in column 3:—\nTABLE\nColumn1\nColumn2\nColumn3\nCounty Courts Act 1959:\nSection 39 (contract and tort)\n£2,000\n£5,000\nSection 40 (money recoverable by statute)\n£2,000\n£5,000\nSection 41 (abandonment of excess)\n£2,000\n£5,000\nSection 45 (transfer from High Court to county court)\n£2,000\n£5,000\nSection 47(1)(a) and (1A)(a) (county court costs in High Court)\n£1,200\n£3,000\nSection 47(1)(b) and (1A)(b) (no costs in High Court)\n£350\n£600\nSection 52 (equity)\n£15,000\n£30,000\nSection 62 (probate)\n£15,000\n£30,000\nSection 68 (transfer of interpleader from High Court to county court)\n£2,000\n£5,000\nSection 80 (action by minor for wages)\n£2,000\n£5,000\nSection 102(3)(c) (registrars' jurisdiction)\n£200\n£500\nSection 146 (attachment of debts)\n£2,000\n£5,000\nFirst Schedule (miscellaneous jurisdiction)\n£15,000\n£30,000\n£2,000\n£5,000\nSettled Land Act 1925, section 113(3)\n£15,000\n£30,000\nSolicitors Act 1974, section 69(3) (actions for solicitors' costs)\n£2,000\n£5,000\nConsumer Credit Act 1974, section 139(5) (re-opening of extortionate credit agreements)\n£2,000\n£5,000\nCharging Orders Act 1979, section 1(2)(c)\n£2,000\n£5,000",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/724",
      "affecting_title": "The High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction Order 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2684",
      "affecting_title": "The Solicitors' Incorporated Practices Order 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1123/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:35:10.520252+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."
}