Access to Justice Act 1999

26 (1) Section 2 (registration of orders) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2)(b) (procedure on application for registration of order), for “clerk of” substitute “justices' chief executive for”.

(3) In subsection (5) (registration of orders), for “or clerk of” substitute “of, or justices' chief executive for,”.

(4) In subsection (6) (effect on magistrates' court order of registration in the High Court), for “the clerk of a magistrates' court” (in both places) substitute “a justices' chief executive”.

(5) In subsection (6ZA)(b) (effect on High Court order or county court order of registration in magistrates' court), for “the clerk of the court or the clerk of any other magistrates' court” substitute “a justices' chief executive”.

(6) In subsection (6ZC) (payments under order becoming or ceasing to be payable to clerk of a magistrates' court), for “the clerk of a magistrates' court” substitute “a justices' chief executive”.