County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004.

(2) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to an Order, Part, Schedule or Form is a reference to that Order, Part, Schedule or Form as numbered in the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981(1).

Lodgments

2.  Order 21 rule 2(6) shall be amended by deleting the words “with the chief clerk and a copy shall also be lodged” and “last mentioned”.

Appeals

3.  Order 32 shall be amended as follows:

(a) in Rule 5(2) for the words “fourteen days” substitute the words “twenty one days”;

(b) after Part IIA there shall be inserted the new Part IIB set out in Schedule 1 to these Rules; and

(c) in Schedule 1 after Form 129 there shall be inserted the new Forms set out in Schedule 2 to these Rules.

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

A. R. Hart

T. A. Burgess

J. J. Curran

Barry Valentine

Adrian Colton

James A. Agnew

Kay Heggarty

Dated 31st March 2004

After consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, I allow these Rules which shall come into operation on 31st May 2004.

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Lord Filkin

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 7th May 2004