Statutory Instruments
2016 No. 974
Senior Courts Of England And Wales
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( 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 2016 and shall come into force on 31st October 2016.
Amendments to the 2014 Order
2. —(1)The Civil Courts Order 2014( 2 ) 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—
| “ Port Talbot | Port Talbot |
| Prestatyn | Prestatyn ” ; 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.
Sir Oliver Heald QC
Minister of State
Ministry of Justice
7th October 2016
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).