County Courts
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1
A county court shall be held at Colwyn Bay under the name of the Conwy and Colwyn County Court.
2
The holding of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Bridgnorth, Conwy, Hinckley, Leominster, Stamford, Tonbridge and Whitehaven County Courts shall be discontinued.
3
The county courts mentioned in column 2 of Schedule 1 to this Order shall have jurisdiction in proceedings commenced before this Order comes into operation in the courts mentioned opposite thereto in Column 1.
4
No process shall be invalid only because the court is described therein by the name by which it was known before the coming into operation of this Order.
5
For the purposes of section 1(1) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1967 the Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge County Court shall be a divorce county court and court of trial.
6
For the purposes of section 55(1) of the County Courts Act 1959:—
a
the Workington County Court shall be appointed to have Admiralty jurisdiction; and
b
the districts of the Carlisle County Court and the Penrith County Court shall be assigned to the Workington County Court for Admiralty purposes.
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For the purposes of section 96(2) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 and section 218(5) of the Companies Act 1948 the district of the Ludlow County Court shall be attached to the Hereford County Court and the district of the Woolwich County Court shall be attached to the Croydon County Court for the purposes of those jurisdictions.
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The amendments set out in Schedule 2 to this Order shall be made to the Civil Courts Order 1983, as amended1, being amendments that are consequential upon the foregoing provisions of this Order.