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1. This Order may be cited as the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 and shall come into force on 22nd April 2014.
2. Subject to article 3—
(a)the Civil Courts Order 1983(1) (“the 1983 Order”); and
(b)the orders specified in the Schedule to this Order, which amended the 1983 Order,
are revoked.
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the following provisions in the 1983 Order, as they had effect on the date on which that Order was last amended, shall continue to have effect—
(a)article 6, in so far as it relates to the provisions in article 10;
(b)article 10; and
(c)Schedule 3, in so far as it relates to the provisions in article 10.
(2) From the date on which this Order comes into force, in respect of proceedings to which article 10 of the 1983 Order applies—
(a)proceedings may be started in the County Court hearing centre corresponding to the county court designated by article 10(a) of, and Schedule 3 to, the 1983 Order;
(b)if proceedings have been started in a county court, they may be continued—
(i)in the County Court as if they had been started in the County Court; and
(ii)in the County Court hearing centre corresponding to that county court;
(c)a reference in article 10(b) and Schedule 3 to the district of a county court not designated for the purposes of the Race Relations Act 1976(2) has effect as if it were a reference to the area served by the corresponding County Court hearing centre;
(d)a reference to a county court named in the fifth column of Schedule 3 has effect as if it were a reference to the corresponding County Court hearing centre; and
(e)references in sections 57, 67A and 72 of the Relations Act 1976 to a designated county court are to be construed accordingly.
(3) In respect of any proceedings to which paragraphs (1) and (2) apply—
(a)anything done in accordance with provision made by or under an enactment which applied to a county court is to be treated as if it had been done in accordance with provision made by or under an enactment applicable to corresponding proceedings in the County Court; and
(b)any act, judgment or order of a county court has the same effect as if it had been an act judgment or order of the County Court, and accordingly further proceedings in the County Court may be taken in respect of such act, judgment or order.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Shailesh Vara
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Ministry of Justice
27th March 2014
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