The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 1541

FAMILY PROCEEDINGS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 2006

Made

13th June 2006

Laid before Parliament

15th June 2006

Coming into force

6th July 2006

The Lord Chancellor after consulting the Lord Chief Justice makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Part 1 of Schedule 11 of the Children Act 1989(1).

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 6th July 2006.

Amendments to Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991

2.  The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991(2), is amended in accordance with the following articles of this Order.

3.  In Schedule 1 (family hearing centres) after the entry for Bromley County Court, insert—

“Clerkenwell & Shoreditch County Court”.

4.  In Schedule 2 (care centres)—

(a) omit the references to De Maldwyn, North Pembrokeshire, South Pembrokeshire and Welshpool;

(b) after the entry for Miskin, insert—

“Montgomeryshire

Chester County Court”;

(c) after the entry for North West Gwent, insert—

“Pembrokeshire

Swansea County Court”.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Harriet Harman

Minister of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Date 13th June 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

It has been decided that the Clerkenwell & Shoreditch County Court will become a Family Hearing Centre as defined in article 2 of the Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991 (“the 1991 Order”). A Family Hearing Centre is a county court designated for the purposes of hearing cases under Parts III, IV or V of the Children Act 1989. This Order effects this change and amends the 1991 Order to confer Family Centre status upon the Clerkenwell & Shoreditch County Court.

Consequential amendments are also made following the Local Justice Areas (No 2) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2949) which abolished the areas of De Maldwyn, North Pembrokeshire, South Pembrokeshire and Welshpool and created the new areas Montgomeryshire and Pembrokeshire.

(1)

1989 c. 41. Paragraph 4, part 1 of Schedule 11 is amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, s 15(1), Schedule 4, Pt 1, paragraphs 203, 210(1), (2)(c.4).

(2)

S.I. 1991/1677, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1993/624, 1994/2164, 1994/3138, 1997/1897, 1998/2166, 2001/775, 2003/331 and 2005/520.