Statutory Instruments
Senior Courts Of England And Wales
County Court, England And Wales
Made
22nd November 2017
Laid before Parliament
27th November 2017
Coming into force
19th December 2017
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2A(1) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997(1), with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with section 2A(2), and having consulted in accordance with section 2A(2A), of that Act, makes the following Order.
1. This Order may be cited as the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (Amendment) Order 2017 and comes in to force on 19th December 2017.
2. In section 2(2) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997(2), after sub-paragraph (c) insert—
“(ca)one person who is a judge of the Senior Courts, a Circuit judge or a district judge and who has particular experience of the law applicable in Wales,”.
Dominic Raab
Minister of State for Justice
Ministry of Justice
22nd November 2017
I concur
Sir Ian Burnett
Lord Chief Justice
26th October 2017
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends section 2(2) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (c.12) to permit the Lord Chief Justice to appoint to the Civil Procedure Rule Committee a person who is a judge of the Senior Courts, a Circuit judge or a district judge and who has particular experience of the law applicable in Wales.
1997 c. 12. Section 2A was inserted by section 84 of the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), which was amended by section 15 of, and Schedule 4, paragraph 264 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4).
Section 2(2) was amended by article 2 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (Amendment) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1847), section 83(2) and (3) of the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), Section 15 of, and Schedule 4, paragraph 262(3) and Schedule 11, paragraphs 1(2) and 4(1) to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), section 208 of, and Schedule 21, paragraph 122(a) to, the Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29) and section 17 of, and Schedule 9, paragraph 67(a) to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22).