The County Court (Forms) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1997

This Statutory Instrument has been made to correct an error in S.I. 1997/1838 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 2171 (L.36)

COUNTY COURTS

PROCEDURE

The County Court (Forms) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1997

Made

5th September 1997

Coming into force

1st October 1997

1.  These Rules may be cited as the County Court (Forms) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1997.

2.  In question 8 in Form N.11B in the Schedule to the County Court (Forms) Rules 1982(1), for ‘which stated that the plaintiff intended to make an application for possession’, substitute ‘which stated that possession was required’.

The undersigned members of the Rule Committee, appointed by the Lord Chancellor under section 75 of the County Courts Act 1984(2), having made these Rules, certify them and submit them to the Lord Chancellor.

Frank J. White

Helen Paling

Hugh Jones

R. Winstanley

Margaret Wilby

W. A. Vincent

Peter Birts

E. C. Gee

I allow these Rules, which shall come into force on 1st October 1997.

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 5th September 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules make a correction in Form N.11B (form of reply to application for accelerated possession under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988). The form was introduced by S.I. 1997/1838 (L.28).

(1)

S.I. 1982/586; form N.11B was inserted by S.I. 1997/1838.

(2)

1984 c. 28; section 75 was amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), sections 2(4) and 16 and Schedule 18, paragraph 47.