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The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) 1966

S.I. 1966/559 · Made 10 May 1966

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SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE, ENGLAND

PROCEDURE

Made 10th May 1966

Laid before Parliament 17th May 1966

Coming into Operation 1st October 1966

We, the Rule Committee of the Supreme Court, being the authority having for the time being power under section 99(4) of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 to make, amend or revoke rules regulating the practice and procedure of the Supreme Court of Judicature, hereby exercise those powers as follows:—

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

(1)

These Rules may be cited as the Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) 1966, and shall come into operation on 1st October 1966.

(2)

The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2

In Order 41, rule 7(1), of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965f1 for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the words “initialled the alteration and, in the case of an erasure, has re-written in the margin of the affidavit any words or figures written on the erasure and has signed or initialled them.”

Signature

Gardiner, C

Parker of Waddington, C.J

Denning, M.R

J.E.S. Simon, P

Cyril Salmon, L.J

Edmund Davies, J

Geoffrey Cross, J

Eustace Roskill, J

Hugh Griffiths

N. Browne-Wilkinson

W. O. Carter

Dated 10th May 1966

Explanatory note

These Rules alter the method of authenticating an erasure in an affidavit for use in the Supreme Court.