{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-2013/rule-205",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-2013/rule-205.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/3208",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Administration Rules 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-2013",
  "path": "rule/205",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "205",
  "heading": "“The court”; “the registrar”",
  "text": "(1) Anything to be done under or by virtue of the 1986 Act or the Rules by, to or before the court may be done by, to or before a judge, district judge or the registrar.\n(2) The registrar or district judge may authorise any act of a formal or administrative character which is not by statute the registrar’s or district judge’s responsibility to be carried out by the chief clerk or any other officer of the court acting on the registrar’s behalf, in accordance with directions given by the Lord Chancellor.\n(3) “the registrar” means—\n(a) an Insolvency and Companies Court Judge\n(b) where the proceedings are in the District Registry of Birmingham, Bristol, Caernarfon, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Mold, Newcastle-upon-Tyne or Preston, a district judge attached to the District Registry in question.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 205(3)(a) substituted (26.2.2018) by The Alteration of Judicial Titles (Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/130), art. 1, Sch. para. 12(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 205 in force at 31.1.2014, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3208/rule/205",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:31:29.914042+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."
}