Civil Courts (Amendment No. 2) Order 1994

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1994/1536

1994 No. 1536

SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALESCOUNTY COURTS

The Civil Courts (Amendment No. 2) Order 1994

Made 9th June 1994

Laid before Parliament 13th June 1994

Coming into force 4th July 1994

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 99(1) of the Supreme Court Act 19811, sections 2(1) and 26 of the County Courts Act 19842and by sections 117(4) and 374 of the Insolvency Act 19863, hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

Citation, commencement and interpretation

S-1 This Order may be cited as the Civil Courts (Amendment No.2)...

1. This Order may be cited as the Civil Courts (Amendment No.2) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 4th July 1994.

S-2 In this Order, “the 1983 Order ” means the Civil Courts Order...

2. In this Order, “the 1983 Order” means the Civil Courts Order 19834, and a reference to a Schedule by number means the Schedule so numbered in that Order.

District registries of the High Court

District registries of the High Court

S-3 The district registry of the High Court at Bangor shall be...

3.—(1) The district registry of the High Court at Bangor shall be closed.

(2) Schedule 1 shall accordingly be amended by deleting the reference to that district registry.

S-4 A district registry of the High Court shall be established at...

4.—(1) A district registry of the High Court shall be established at Llangefni, which district shall be the area comprising the district of the Llangefni County Court.

(2) The 1983 Order shall accordingly be amended as follows—

(a)

(a) in Schedule 1, after the entry relating to Liverpool, there shall be inserted the following new entry—

“First Column

Second Column

Llangefni

Llangefni”;

(b)

(b) in Schedule 3, in column 1 of the entry relating to the Llangefni County Court, the letters “D.R.” (denoting a district registry of the High Court) shall be inserted beneath the word “Llangefni”.

S-5 In the second column of Schedule 1, for the entries relating to...

5. In the second column of Schedule 1, for the entries relating to the district registries listed in column 1 of the Schedule of this Order, there shall be substituted the entries listed in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order.

County courts

County courts

S-6 Schedule 3 shall be amended as follows— the entries relating to...

6. Schedule 3 shall be amended as follows—

(1) the entries relating to the Bangor, Porthmadog and Stroud County Courts shall be deleted5;

(2) in the entry relating to the Caernarfon County Court—

(a)

(a) in column 2, above the word “Divorce” there shall be inserted the words

“Admiralty Bankruptcy”;

(b)

(b) in columns 3 and 4, the word “Bangor” shall be deleted;

(3) in columns 3 and 4 of the entry relating to the Colwyn Bay County Court, for the word “Bangor” at both places, there shall be substituted the word “Caernarfon”; and

(4) in the entry relating to the Llangefni County Court—

(a)

(a) in column 2, there shall be inserted the word “Bankruptcy”;

(b)

(b) in column 3, for the word “Bangor” there shall be substituted the word “Caernarfon”;

(c)

(c) in column 4, the word “Bangor” shall be deleted.

S-7 The Caernarfon County Court shall have jurisdiction in— any...

7. The Caernarfon County Court shall have jurisdiction in—

(a) any Admiralty proceedings, and

(b) any proceedings under the Second Group of Parts of the Insolvency Act 1986 commenced in the Bangor County Court before the coming into force of this Order.

Mackay of Clashfern, C

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Dated 9th June 1994

SCHEDULE

Article 5

SCHEDULE

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Second Column

NAME OF PLACE

DISTRICT DEFINED BY REFERENCE TO COUNTY COURT DISTRICT

Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds

Chatham

Dartford

Gravesend

Chelmsford

Chelmsford

Darlington

Darlington

Doncaster

Doncaster

Rotherham

Gloucester

Gloucester

Halifax

Halifax

Kingston-upon-Hull

Goole

Kingston-upon-Hull

Lincoln

Grantham

Lincoln

Newark

Scarborough

Bridlington

Scarborough

Sunderland

Consett

...

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