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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-transfer-amendment-and-consequential-provision-order-2026/schedule-1/paragraph-13",
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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": "schedule/1/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "County Courts Act 1984",
  "text": "(1) The County Courts Act 1984 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 5 (judges of the county court), in subsection (2)(e), for “Chancellor of the High Court” substitute “President of the Business and Property Division”.\n(3) In section 18 (jurisdiction by agreement in certain actions), for “Chancery Division” substitute “Business and Property Division”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 28; section 5 was substituted by paragraph 4 of Schedule 9 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22). Section 18 was amended by paragraph 49 of Schedule 18 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41) and paragraph 10 of Schedule 9 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013. There are other amendments, but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/723/schedule/1/paragraph/13",
    "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."
}