The Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 1955

County Courts, England And Wales

The Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2012

Made

18th July 2012

Laid before Parliament

26th July 2012

Coming into force

10th September 2012

The Lord Chancellor, after consulting the Lord Chief Justice, makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 92(6) and Part 1 of Schedule 11 to the Children Act 1989(1).

Citation and Commencement

1.  This Order shall be cited as the Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2012 and shall come into force on 10th September 2012.

Revocation of jurisdiction

2.  Pontefract County Court shall cease to be a family hearing centre.

Amendments to the Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings Order 2008

3.  The Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings Order 2008(2) shall be amended by omitting the entry in Schedule 1 to that Order relating to Pontefract County Court.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

J Djanogly

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Justice

18th July 2012

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2836). As of 10th September 2012 Pontefract County Court ceases to be a family hearing centre.

(1)

1989 c.41. Part 1 of Schedule 11 was amended by paragraphs 203 and 210 of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4).