{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-northern-ireland-order-1980/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-northern-ireland-order-1980/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1980/397",
  "legislation_title": "County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-northern-ireland-order-1980",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "General civil jurisdiction",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part, a county court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in which the amount claimed, or the value of specific chattels claimed, does not exceed £30,000 , including (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph) any action in which a balance not exceeding £30,000 is claimed—\n(a) on foot of an account (including a partnership account);\n(b) after allowances made for any amount admitted by the plaintiff to be due by him to the defendant (whether by way of set-off or on foot of a counterclaim or otherwise); or\n(c) after the abandonment by the plaintiff of any sum by which the amount alleged to be due to him by the defendant exceeds £30,000 , so, however, that a decree in respect of any cause of action to which this sub-paragraph applies shall be, and be expressed to be, in full discharge of all demands in respect of that cause of action.\n(2) A county court shall not have jurisdiction to hear any action claiming damages exceeding £3,000 in respect of libel or slander.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) A county court shall not have jurisdiction to hear any Admiralty cause or matter.\n(5) A county court shall not have jurisdiction to hear any action in which the title to any toll, fair, market or franchise is in question.\n(6) A claim for the recovery of any rent or other sum not exceeding £15,000 due in respect of the use and occupation of any land may be joined with, and heard and determined together with, a claim under this Part for the recovery of that land.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 10(1) substituted (25.2.2013) by The County Courts (Financial Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/18), arts. 1, 2(a) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SR 1993/282"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 10(3)(3A) repealed (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 80(6), Sch. 9 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k)(m) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1980/397/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:38.739072+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."
}