The Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Amendment No. 5) 2005

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Amendment No. 5) 2005 and shall come into operation on 4th November 2005.

(2) In these Rules, any reference to an Order by number or an Appendix by letter means the Order so numbered or the Appendix so lettered in the Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) 1980(1).

Amendment of Order 1

2.  Order 1, rule 12 shall be amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph (a), after sub-paragraph (iii), there shall be added the following new sub-paragraph—

“(iv) dissolution or annulment of a civil partnership, legal separation of civil partners, a presumption of death order and any matters arising therefrom or connected therewith;”;

(b) in paragraph (b), after sub-paragraph (xii), there shall be added the following new sub-paragraphs—

“(xiii) sections 6 and 8 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004(2);

(xiv) section 181 of, and Schedule 17 to, the Civil Partnership Act 2004(3);

(xv) Council Regulation (EC) No. 2201/2003 of 27th November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and matters of parental responsibility, so far as that Regulation relates to jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement in parental responsibility matters;”.

Amendment of Appendix A

3.  Appendix A shall be amended as follows—

(a) for Form 24, there shall be substituted the new Form 24 set out in the Schedule to these Rules; and

(b) for Form 25, there shall be substituted the new Form 25 set out in the Schedule to these Rules.

Brian Kerr

Paul Girvan

Patrick Coghlin

J. M. Nicholson

Anthony Campbell

Caroline A. McGonagle

Dated 7th October 2005

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

I concur

Bridget Prentice

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 11th October 2005