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[^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 2019 and shall come into force on 30th April 2019.

Amendments to the 2014 Order

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• (1) The Civil Courts Order 2014[^f00002] 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.

Signed

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)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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.

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) to (3).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2014/819, which has been amended by S.I. 2016/974, 2016/1068 and 2017/574.