TRANSFER OF PROCEEDINGS

Transfer from county court to magistrates' court by county court

11.  A county court may transfer to a magistrates" court before trial proceedings which were transferred under article 7(1) where the county court, having regard to the principle set out in section 1(2) and the interests of the child, considers that the criterion cited by the magistrates' court as the reason for transfer–

(a)in the case of the criterion in article 7(1)(a), does not apply,

(b)in the case of the criterion in article 7(1)(b), no longer applies, because the proceedings with which the transferred proceedings were to be heard have been determined,

(c)in the case of the criterion in article 7(1)(c), no longer applies.