Explanatory note

These Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court so as—

(a) to amend provisions concerned with the enforcement of exchange controls (rule 2);

(b) to add Birmingham district registry to the list of district registries empowered to tax Court of Appeal bills of costs (rule 3);

(c) to widen the scope of the provisions for service out of the jurisdiction of summonses, notices and orders in proceedings under the Arbitration Act 1979 and in arbitration proceedings generally (rule 4);

(d) to require an appellant under the Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates' Courts) Act 1960 to lodge copies of any order staying execution of the order appealed against, and to extend the procedure for appeals under that Act to appeals under the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (rule 5);

(e) to require that where the court varies or discharges an injunction to which a power of arrest has been attached under section 2 of the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 (c. 50) the registrar immediately informs the police, and a copy of the order is delivered to the police as well (rule 6);

(f) to require that the police should be notified in a similar fashion where the court directs, under section 28 of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978, that a magistrates' court order to which a power of arrest has been attached shall cease to have effect (rule 6);

(g) to provide for the registration of assignments of book debts (rule 7);

(h) to delete from Admiralty Form No. 13 (Commission for appraisement and sale) the reference to the method of sale (rule 8); and

(i) to delete from the Rules references to obsolete enactments (rule 9).