The Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2016

Made: 7th October 2016

Laid before Parliament: 10th October 2016

Coming into force: 31st October 2016

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 99(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981[^f00001], having consulted the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with that section, makes the following Order.

Commencement and citation

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This Order may be cited as the Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2016 and shall come into force on 31st October 2016.

Amendments to the 2014 Order

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• (1) The Civil Courts Order 2014[^f00002] is amended as follows.

• (2) In article 2(2), omit the words “the name of the district registry at Brecon shall be the Brecknock District Registry,”.

• (3) In the Schedule—

• (a) omit the following places specified the in the first column—

• (i) Brecon;

• (ii) Bridgend;

• (iii) King’s Lynn;

• (iv) Macclesfield;

• (v) Rhyl; and

• (vi) Warrington,

and the County Court hearing centres named in the second column corresponding to those places;

• (b) in the first column, for the entry for “Bury St. Edmonds”, substitute “Bury St. Edmunds”;

• (c) after the entry for Portsmouth, insert—

; and

• (d) in the second column, omit the references to the following County Court hearing centres—

• (i) Accrington;

• (ii) Conway and Colwyn;

• (iii) Buxton;

• (iv) Altrincham;

• (v) Morpeth and Berwick; and

• (vi) Tameside.

Signed

Sir Oliver Heald QC — Minister of State — Ministry of Justice — 7th October 2016

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Civil Courts Order 2014 (SI 2014/819), which specifies the locations and names of the district registries of the High Court in England and Wales.

The amendments—

• remove references to those places previously served by district registries, but which have now closed;

• remove references to County Court hearing centres which have now also closed;

• establish two new district registries at Port Talbot and Prestatyn, which will be operational from 31st October 2016; and

• correct a typographical error in respect of the district registry at Bury St. Edmunds.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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), (2) and (3).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2014/819.