Citation and commencement

1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction (Amendment) Order 2008.

(2) This article and article 2 of this Order come into force on 12th December 2008.

(3) Articles 3 and 5 of this Order in so far as they relate to the EOP Regulation come into force on 12th December 2008.

(4) Articles 3 and 5 of this Order in so far as they relate to the ESCP Regulation and articles 6 and 7 of this Order come into force on 1st January 2009

(5) Article 4 of this Order comes into force on 6th April 2009.

Interpretation

2. In this Order—

(a) ^M2 “ the 1991 Order ” means the High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction Order 1991 and an article referred to by number alone means the article so numbered in the 1991 Order;

(b) ^M3 “ the EOP Regulation ” means Regulation (EC) No 1896/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 creating a European order for payment procedure ; and

(c) ^M4 “ the ESCP Regulation ” means Regulation (EC) No 861/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 establishing a European small claims procedure .

Amendments to the 1991 Order

^F1 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4. Revoke article 2(1)(h).

^F2 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6. In article 4, for “and 6A”, substitute “ , 6A and 6B ” .

^F3 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .