The County Court (Forms) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 2174 (L.22)

COUNTY COURTS

PROCEDURE

The County Court (Forms) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1993

Made

17th August 1993

Coming into force

1st November 1993

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the County Court (Forms) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1993.

(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 Schedule” means that Schedule.

2.  There shall be substituted in the Schedule, for forms N.2, N.5, N.6, N.26, N.27, N.27(1), N.27(2), N.28, N.29 and N.31, the forms contained in Schedule 1 to these Rules.

3.  There shall be inserted in the Schedule, after forms N.5, N.11, N.26 and N.118, the forms contained in Schedule 2 to these Rules.

4.  Form N.7 in the Schedule shall be omitted.

The undersigned members of the Rule Committee appointed by the Lord Chancellor under section 75 of the County Courts Act 1984(2), having made these Rules, certify them and submit them to the Lord Chancellor.

I allow these Rules, which shall come into force on 1st November 1993.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Frank J. White

R. H. Hutchinson

J. H. Wroath

Margaret Wilby

Peter Birts

Henrietta Manners

E. C. Gee

R. J. Winstanley

Dated 17th August 1993

SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules complement the changes to the possession procedure which are introduced by the County Court (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1993 (S.I. 1993/2175) by amending the County Court (Forms) Rules 1982 so as to substitute new forms for the possession summons and for possession orders. Particulars of claim, with reply forms for the tenant, are prescribed for use in cases involving residential property. These rules also prescribe forms for the accelerated possession procedure introduced by the Amendment No. 3 Rules for property let under certain assured and assured shorthold tenancies.

(1)

S.I. 1982/586; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1984/879, 1985/567, 1986/1505, 1988/279, 1989/886, 1918, 1990/517, 1991/1132 and 1992/2040.

(2)

1984 c. 28; section 75 was amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), sections 2(4), 16, Schedule 18, paragraph 47.