(1)The Certification Officer may refuse to entertain any application or complaint made to him under a provision of Chapters III to VIIA of Part I by a vexatious litigant.
(2)The Certification Officer must give reasons for such a refusal.
(3)Subsection (1) does not apply to a complaint under section 37E(1)(b) or to an application under section 41.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (1) a vexatious litigant is a person who is the subject of—
(a)F2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b)a civil proceedings order or an all proceedings order which is made under section 42(1) of the [F3Senior Courts Act 1981] and which remains in force,
(c)an order which is made under section 1 of the M1Vexatious Actions (Scotland) Act 1898 [F4or a vexatious litigation order made under section 100 of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014], or
(d)an order which is made under section 32 of the M2Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 256A, 256B inserted (25.10.1999) by 1999 c. 26, s. 29, Sch. 6 paras. 1, 23; S.I. 1999/2830, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with Sch. 3 para. 5)
F2S. 256A(4)(a) repealed (6.4.2005) by Employment Relations Act 2004 (c. 24), ss. 57(2), 59(2)-(4), Sch. 2; S.I. 2005/872, art. 4, Sch (with arts. 6-21)
F3S. 256A(4)(b): words substituted wherever they occur in any enactment (1.10.2009) by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 1; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(b)(d)
F4Words in s. 256A(4)(c) inserted (S.) (28.11.2016) by The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (Relevant Officer and Consequential Provisions) Order 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/387), art. 1, sch. 2 para. 2
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