{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-transfer-amendment-and-consequential-provision-order-2026/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/723",
  "legislation_title": "The Senior Courts (Transfer, Amendment and Consequential Provision) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-transfer-amendment-and-consequential-provision-order-2026",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Senior Courts Act 1981",
  "text": "(1) The Senior Courts Act 1981 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 5(1)(a) (divisions of High Court)—\n(a) for “Chancery Division” substitute “Business and Property Division”;\n(b) for “the Chancellor of the High Court, who shall be president thereof,” substitute “the President of the Business and Property Division”.\n(3) In section 6 (the Patents, Admiralty and Commercial Courts), for subsection (1) substitute—\n“(1) There shall be as part of the Business and Property Division—\n(a) a Patents Court,\n(b) an Admiralty Court, and\n(c) a Commercial Court.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 5(1) was amended by section 69(3) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) and paragraph 118 of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/723/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:58:52.873409+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}