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Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 1918 (L.18)

COUNTY COURTS

PROCEDURE

The County Court (Forms) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1989

Made

6th October 1989

Coming into force

1st December 1989

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the County Court (Forms) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1989.

(2) In these Rules, a form referred to by number means the form so numbered in the Schedule to the County Court (Forms) Rules 1982(1) and “the main Schedule” means that Schedule.

2.  There shall be inserted in the main Schedule, after form N.1 and form N.9 respectively, the forms N.1(SPC) and N.9(SPC) contained in Schedule 1 to these Rules.

3.  For form N.110 in the main Schedule, there shall be substituted the form contained in Schedule 2 to these Rules.

We, the undersigned members of the Rule Committee appointed by the Lord Chancellor under section 75 of the County Courts Act 1984(2), having by virtue of the powers vested in us in that behalf made the foregoing Rules, do hereby certify the same under our hands and submit them to the Lord Chancellor accordingly.

C. S. Stuart-White,

R. Lockett,

A. N. Fricker,

R. Greenslade,

Patrick Eccles,

Gillian Stuart-Brown,

Eifion Roberts,

R. E. Hammerton,

K. H. P. Wilkinson,

Timothy Stow,

R. C. Newport.

I allow these Rules, which shall come into force on 1st December 1989.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 6th 1989

Rule 2

SCHEDULE 1

Rule 3

SCHEDULE 2

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the County Court (Forms) Rules 1982 so as–

(a)to provide special forms of default summons (fixed amount) (N.1(SPC)) and of admission, defence and counterclaim (N.9(SPC)) for use where a summons is prepared by the summons production centre from computer-readable information; and

(b)to substitute a new form N.110 (power of arrest attached to an injunction under section 2 of the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 (c. 50)).

(1)

S.I. 1982/586; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/279 and 1989/886.