{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-181",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-181.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/181",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "181",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction of county court.",
  "text": "(1) The county court has jurisdiction—\n(a) to entertain any proceedings brought under this Part, and\n(b) to determine any question arising under this Part or under a conveyance or grant executed in pursuance of the right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms;\nbut subject to sections 128 , 128B, 155C and 158. . .(which provide for matters of valuation to be determined by the district valuer).\n(2) The jurisdiction conferred by this section includes jurisdiction to entertain proceedings on any such question as is mentioned in subsection (1)(b) notwithstanding that no other relief is sought than a declaration.\n(3) If a person takes proceedings in the High Court which, by virtue of this section, he could have taken in the county court, he is not entitled to recover any costs.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 181(1) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 52; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 181(1) substituted (11.10.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 187(1), Sch. 21 para. 23; S.I. 1993/2134, arts. 2, 4(b) (with saving in Sch. 1 para. 4(1))."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 181(1) inserted (22.9.2008) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), ss. 306(11), 325(2) (with s. 306(12))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 181 substituted (18.1.2005) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), ss. 186(2), 270(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 181(1) repealed (11.10.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 187(2), Sch. 22; S.I. 1993/2134, arts. 2, 4(b), Sch. 2 (with saving in Sch. 1 para. 4(1))."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 181(4)(5) repealed (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15, 146, 148(1), Sch. 4 para. 182, Sch. 18 Pt. 2; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 paras. 10, 11(r), 29, 30(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 176, 177, 180, 181 applied by Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63, SIF 61), s. 24(1), Sch. 5 Pt. I para. 5(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1990/41",
      "affecting_title": "Courts and Legal Services Act 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/181",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+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."
}