Part II E+W England and Wales

Circuit judges and county courtsE+W

17 County court jurisdiction in respect of arbitrations.E+W

(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(2)Section 26 of the M1Arbitration Act 1950 (which provides for the enforcement of arbitration awards in the High Court) shall be re-numbered so as to become section 26(1) of that Act ; and at the end of the resulting subsection (1) there shall be added as subsections (2) and (3):—

(2)If—

(a)the amount sought to be recovered does not exceed the current limit on jurisdiction in section 40 of the County Courts Act 1959, and

(b)a county court so orders,

it shall be recoverable (by execution issued from the county court or otherwise) as if payable under an order of that court and shall not be enforceable under subsection (1) above.

(3)An application to the High Court under this section shall preclude an application to a county court and an application to a county court under this section shall preclude an application to the High Court..

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of ss. 1(1), 4, 5, 11, 12, 17(2), 19(2)(5), 24, 26(1), 28, 29, 32(4) Schs. 3, 5 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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