C2Part X Individual Insolvency: General Provisions
373 Jurisdiction in relation to insolvent individuals. C1
1
The High Court and the county courts have jurisdiction throughout England and Wales for the purposes of the Parts in this Group.
2
For the purposes of those Parts, a county court has, in addition to its ordinary jurisdiction, all the powers and jurisdiction of the High Court; and the orders of the court may be enforced accordingly in the prescribed manner.
3
Jurisdiction for the purposes of those Parts is exercised—
a
by the High Court in relation to the proceedings, which, in accordance with the rules, are allocated to the London insolvency district, and
b
by each county court in relation to the proceedings which are so allocated to the insolvency district of that court.
4
Subsection (3) is without prejudice to the transfer of proceedings from one court to another in the manner prescribed by the rules; and nothing in that subsection invalidates any proceedings on the grounds that they were initiated or continued in the wrong court.
Second Group of Parts (Pts. 8-11) modified (31.12.1996) by 1991 c. 57, Sch. 10 (as substituted by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 183 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/2909, art. 3)
Second Group of Parts (Pts. 8-11) modified (11.11.1999 for specified purposes and 6.4.2002 otherwise) by 1999 c. 30, s. 12(1); S.I. 2002/153, art. 2(b)