# The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 2) 1975, Note: Explanatory note


These Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court so as—
(1) to apply the provisions of Order 14 to Admiralty actions in personam, to confine service of a writ by the Admiralty Marshal to cases in which a warrant of arrest has been issued against the property, and to make a number of other changes in the rules relating to Admiralty proceedings (rules 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 13, 16(1), (3) and 19);
(2) to enable representation orders to be made in contentious probate actions (rule 6);
(3) to enlarge the powers of the Chancery Masters and to prescribe a time limit for requesting an adjournment from the Master to a Judge (rules 10, 11 and 12);
(4) to provide for a percentage addition to the amount allowed on a taxation of costs in respect of the non-discretionary items in Appendix 2 to Order 62 and the fixed costs in Appendix 3 (rules 14 and 15);
(5) to minimise the possibility of the arrest of a vessel of another State where the United Kingdom is bound by treaty to do so (rules 16(2) and 21);
(6) to provide for appeals from and references to the Occupational Pensions Board to be heard by a single judge of the Chancery Division and to make amendments in Order 111 consequential on recent social security legislation (rules 17 and 20);
(7) to bring the rules relating to proceedings for the extension or infringement of patents into line with current practice and to clarify the powers of the court in regard to the admission of expert evidence in patent proceedings (rule 18);
(8) to delete various obsolete or redundant provisions (rules 2 and 8).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/911/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-2-1975/note
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