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Article 2 Citation, commencement and interpretation

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

In this Order—

  • “the 1981 Act” means the Senior Courts Act 1981f1;

  • “the 1984 Act” means the County Courts Act 1984f2;

  • “the Companies Acts” means the Companies Act 1985f3, the Companies Act 1989f4 and the Companies Act 2006f5;

  • “decision” includes any judgment, order or direction of the High Court or the county court;

  • “enterprise judge” has the meaning assigned to it by rule 63.1(2)(h) of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998f6;

  • “family proceedings” has the meaning assigned to it by section 32 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984f7; and

  • “a judge of the county court” has the meaning assigned to it by section 5 of the 1984 Actf8.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1981 c. 54. By virtue of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), Schedule 11, Part 1, paragraph 1 and Part 4, paragraph 26, the Supreme Court Act 1981 was renamed “the Senior Courts Act 1981”.

f2

1984 c. 28.

f3

1985 c. 6.

f4

1989 c. 40.

f5

2006 c. 46.

f6

S.I. 1998/3132. Rule 63.1 was substituted by S.I. 2009/3219, rule 12 and the Schedule, and was subsequently amended by S.I. 2009/3390, rules 1(2), 2, 10(b) and 38(a) and (b), S.I. 2212/2208, rule 1, and S.I. 2013/1974, rule 26(b)(ii).

f7

1984 c. 42.

f8

Section 5 was amended by section 17 of, and paragraph 4 in Part 1 of Schedule 9 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22).