Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction Order 1991 so as to provide—

(a)

that appeals under section 19(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1982 (c. 32) (appeals against decisions of auditors) shall be commenced in the High Court (article 3);

(b)

that a judgment or order of a county court for the payment of a sum of money which arose out of an agreement regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974, and which it is sought to enforce wholly or partially by execution against goods, may be enforced only in a county court (article 4); and

(c)

for proceedings to enforce certain road traffic debts arising under the Road Traffic Act 1991 to be taken in Cardiff County Court; by virtue of section 1(5) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, Cardiff County Court’s jurisdiction in such proceedings is exercisable throughout England and Wales (article 5).