Rule 10.13 Taking of affidavit in county court proceedings

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
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 10.13 words substituted by Family Proceedings 2005 rule 109

In relation to family proceedings pending or treated as pending in a divorce county court, section 58(1) of the County Courts Act 1984 ^f1 shall have effect as if after paragraph (c) there were inserted the following words—

“or

(d)

a district judge of the principal registry; or

(e)

any officer of the principal registry authorised by the President under section 2 of the Commissioners for Oaths Act 1889^f2; or

(f)

any clerk in the Central Office of the Royal Courts of Justice authorised to take affidavits for the purposes of proceedings in the Supreme Court.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1984 c. 28 section 58(1) was amended by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (c. 61), Schedule 7, paragraph 8 and Schedule 8.
f2: 1889 c. 10.