Article 12

For the existing paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(1)

Any proceedings in which the jurisdiction conferred on the High Court by section 161 of the Act is invoked shall be assigned to the Queen's Bench Division and be heard by a single judge, unless the Court directs that the matter shall be heard by a Divisional Court; and the Court may, at any stage and without prejudice to its powers under Order 15, direct that any officer or member of the body to whose accounts the application or appeal relates be joined as a respondent.”.

Paragraph (2) shall be amended by omitting the word “Divisional”.