Explanatory note

(This Note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 so as to–

(a)

provide for the modification of provisions relating to the rateable value of domestic property as a result of the introduction of the community charge (Rule 2);

(b)

increase the costs allowed to a litigant in person and the fixed costs recoverable under Appendix 3 to Order 62 (Rules 3 and 4);

(c)

remove the power to dispense with the giving of notice to persons affected by a charging order made under section 9 of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (c. 32; section 9 was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33), Schedule 5 paragraph 4) (Rule 5); and

(d)

revise the amendments relating to service of process made to some of the prescribed forms by rules 5 and 6 of the Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 4) 1989 (S.I. 1989/2427) (Rules 6 to 8).