Article 2 Amendment of the Senior Courts Act 1981

(1)

The Senior Courts Act 1981^f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 5(1)(a) (divisions of High Court)—

(a)

for “Chancery Division” substitute “Business and Property Division”;

(b)

for “the Chancellor of the High Court, who shall be president thereof,” substitute “the President of the Business and Property Division”.

(3)

In section 6 (the Patents, Admiralty and Commercial Courts), for subsection (1) substitute—

“(1)

There shall be as part of the Business and Property Division—

(a)

a Patents Court,

(b)

an Admiralty Court, and

(c)

a Commercial Court.”.

Annotations

f1: 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).