Rule 1.4 County court proceedings in principal registry

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

rules 10.24-10.25 added by Family Proceedings 1993 rule 6
rules 2.71-2.77 revoked by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 19
rules 3.1-3.20 (Pt.III) am. (references to any of rules 2.52-2.70 shatl be read as references to those rules as they were before these rules came into force) by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 20
rule 1.4 modified by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 3(1)
rules 3.21-3.23 added by Family Proceedings 1993 rule 4
rules 2.71-2.77 added by Family Proceedings 1997 rule 4
rule 2.45A-2.45B inserted by Family Proceedings 2003 rule 3
rule 1.4(1) substituted by Family Proceedings 2005 rule 4(a)
rule 1.4(2) words inserted by Family Proceedings 2005 rule 4(b)(i)
rule 1.4(2) words omitted by Family Proceedings 2005 rule 4(b)(ii)
rule 1.4(2) comma inserted by Family Proceedings 2005 rule 4(b)(iii)

(1)

Subject to the provisions of these rules, matrimonial proceedings pending at any time in the principal registry which, if they had been begun in a divorce county court, would be pending at that time in such a court, shall be treated, for the purposes of these rules and of any provision of the County Court Rules 1981 and the County Courts Act 1984^f1, as pending in a divorce county court and not in the High Court.

(2)

Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a divorce county court in any provision of these rules which relates to the commencement or prosecution of proceedings in a divorce county court, or the transfer of proceedings to or from such a court, includes a reference to the principal registry.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1984 c. 28.