C2 Part X Individual Insolvency: General Provisions

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

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)

C1374 Insolvency districts.

1

The Lord Chancellor may F1, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, by order designate the areas which are for the time being to be comprised, for the purposes of the Parts in this Group, in the London insolvency district and the insolvency district F4, or districts, of the county court.

2

An order under this section may contain such incidental, supplemental and transitional provisions as may appear to the Lord Chancellor F2and the Lord Chief Justice necessary or expedient.

3

An order under this section shall be made by statutory instrument and, after being made, shall be laid before each House of Parliament.

4

Subject to any order under this section—

a

the district which, immediately before the appointed day, is the London bankruptcy district becomes, on that day, the London insolvency district;

b

any district which immediately before that day is the bankruptcy district of a county court becomes, on that day, the insolvency district of that court, and

c

any county court which immediately before that day is excluded from having jurisdiction in bankruptcy is excluded, on and after that day, from having jurisdiction for the purposes of the Parts in this Group.

F35

The Lord Chief Justice may nominate a judicial office holder (as defined in section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) to exercise his functions under this section.