The County Court (Forms) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1995

Statutory Instruments

1995 No. 2839 (L.16)

COUNTY COURTS

PROCEDURE

The County Court (Forms) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1995

Made

2nd November 1995

Coming into force

8th January 1996

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the County Court (Forms) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1995.

(2) In these Rules, a form referred to by number means the form so numbered in the Schedule to the County Court (Forms) Rules 1982(1) and “the main Schedule” means that Schedule.

2.  There shall be substituted in the main Schedule, for Forms N1, N1(D), N1(SPC), N2, N3, N4, N9, N9B, N9B(SPC), N10(HP/CCA), N92, N96 and N98 the forms contained in the Schedule to these Rules.

3.  In Forms N18A and N19A, in the section entitled “Help and Advice”, for the words “Many solicitors will give up to half an hour’s advice for a fixed fee of £5, or you may be entitled to advice under the Legal Advice and Assistance Scheme”, there shall be substituted the words “You may be entitled to advice from a solicitor under the Legal Advice and Assistance Scheme.”.

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

Neil Butler

J. H. Wroath

Helen Paling

Margaret Wilby

W. A. Vincent

Henrietta Manners

E. C. Gee

R. J. Winstanley

I allow these Rules, which shall come into force on 8th January 1996.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 2nd November 1995

SCHEDULE

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the County Court (Forms) Rules 1982 so as to:

(a) substitute new forms of summons and of defence following the increase in the small claims limit and to make other miscellaneous amendments to those forms (rule 2);

(b) to substitute a new Form N92 (application for administration order) (rule 2); and

(c) revise an outdated note on the notices of hearing in arbitrations (rule 3).

(1)

S.I. 1982/586, the relevant amendments are S.I. 1984/879, 1985/567, 1986/1505, 1988/279, 1989/886, 1918, 1990/517, 1991/1132, 1992/2040, 1993/712 and 2174.

(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.