County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) These rules may be cited as the County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996.

(2) In these rules a reference to an Order, Rule, Appendix or Form is a reference to that Order, Rule, Appendix or Form as numbered in the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981(1).

Costs

2.—(1) Order 19 shall be amended at Rule 5 by deleting the figure “£22·96” and substituting the figure “£25·54”.

(2) Order 24 shall be amended, at paragraph 7(a) of Rule 9, by deleting the figure “£9·00”, and substituting the figure “£10·00” and by deleting the figure “£12·70” and substituting the figure “£14·12”.

(3) Order 33 shall be amended, at paragraph (6) of Rule 10, by deleting the figure “£5·22” and substituting the figure “£5·80”.

(4) Order 55 shall be amended as follows:—

(a) by deleting, in Rule 13, the figure “80p” and substituting the figure “90p”.

(b) by deleting, in Rule 17, the figure “£1·86” and substituting the figure “£2·06”.

(5) For Appendix 2 there shall be substituted the new Appendix set out in the Schedule.

We, the undersigned members of the County Court Rules Committee, having by virtue of the powers vested in us in this behalf made the foregoing Rules, do hereby certify the same under our hand and submit them to the Lord Chancellor accordingly.

J. F. B. Russell

J. J. Curran

T. A. Burgess

James A. Agnew

H. Keegan

Brian J. Stewart

P. Kelly

Dated 11th January 1996.

After consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, I allow these rules which shall come into operation on 26th February 1996.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 27th January 1996