Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2000
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2000/1482 |
| Year | 2000 |
2000 No. 1482
SUPREME COURT, ENGLAND AND WALES
COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2000
Made 6th June 2000
Laid before Parliament 6th June 2000
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 99(1) of the Supreme Court Act 19811, sections 2(1) and 26 of the County Courts Act 19842and section 374(1) of the Insolvency Act 19863, hereby makes the following Order:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force:
(a)
(a) as to articles 3 and 4, on 2nd January 2001; and
(b)
(b) as to the remainder of this Order, on 3rd July 2000.
(2) In this Order, a Schedule referred to by number alone means the Schedule so numbered in the Civil Courts Order 19834.
Changes to district registries and county courts
2.—(1) The holding of the Lichfield County Court shall be discontinued5.
(2) In Schedule 1, in the entry relating to Walsall, “Lichfield” shall be deleted from the second column.
(3) In Schedule 3 the entry relating to Lichfield shall be deleted.
3.—(1) The district registry of the High Court at Workington shall be closed and the holding of the Workington County Court shall be discontinued.
(2) There shall be a district registry of the High Court at Whitehaven.
(3) Whitehaven County Court shall have jurisdiction for the purposes of Parts VIII to XI of the Insolvency Act 1986, and its insolvency district shall be coterminous with its district for the purposes of section 2(3) of the County Courts Act 1984.
(4) In Schedule 1—
(a)
(a) the entry relating to Workington shall be deleted; and
(b)
(b) the following entry shall be inserted in its appropriate alphabetical position—
“Whitehaven |
Whitehaven”. |
(5) In Schedule 3—
(a)
(a) in the entry relating to Whitehaven—
(i) in column 1, after “Whitehaven” there shall be inserted “(D.R.) ”; and
(ii) in column 2, before “Divorce” there shall be inserted “Bankruptcy ”; and
(b)
(b) the entry relating to Workington shall be deleted.
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