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Statutory Instruments
2019 No. 889
Senior Courts Of England And Wales
County Court, England And Wales
The Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2019
Made
23rd April 2019
Laid before Parliament
29th April 2019
Coming into force
30th April 2019
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 99(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981(1), having consulted the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with that section, makes the following Order.
Commencement and citation
1. This Order may be cited as the Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2019 and shall come into force on 30th April 2019.
Amendments to the 2014 Order
2.-(1) The Civil Courts Order 2014(2) is amended as follows.
(2) In the Schedule-
(a)omit the following places specified in the first column-
(i)Chichester; and
(ii)Colchester;
(b)omit the County Court hearing centres named in the second column corresponding to those places listed in sub-paragraph (a); and
(c)in the second column, omit the references to the following County Court hearing centres-
(i)Chippenham and Trowbridge; and
(ii)Banbury.
Lucy Frazer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
Ministry of Justice
23rd April 2019
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Civil Courts Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/819), which specifies the locations and names of district registries of the High Court in England and Wales.
The amendments-
(a)remove references to places served by district registries which have either closed (Chichester) or will close on the date that this Order comes into force (Colchester); and
(b)remove references to County Court hearing centres which have now also closed.
(1)
1981 c. 54. Section 99 was amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), section 15(1) and Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraphs 114 and 143(1) to (3).
(2)
S.I. 2014/819, which has been amended by S.I. 2016/974, 2016/1068 and 2017/574.