PART 2APPLICATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE RULES

F5Power to perform an act of the courtI12.4

F61

Where these Rules provide for the court to perform any act then, except where an enactment, rule or practice direction provides otherwise, that act may be performed—

a

in relation to proceedings in the High Court, by any judge, Master F4, Registrar in Bankruptcy or F3District Judge of that Court; and

b

in relation to proceedings in F2the County Court, by any judge F1of the County Court.

F72

A legal adviser, defined in paragraph 1.2(b) of Practice Direction 2E, may exercise the jurisdiction of the County Court specified in, and subject to, that Practice Direction.