http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/917/article/2The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Destination of Appeals) Order 2016enSENIOR COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALESCOUNTY COURT, ENGLAND AND WALESStatute Law Database2025-09-26Expert Participation2022-10-01 This Order makes provision for the court to which an appeal will lie against a decision in civil proceedings. It replaces provision previously made by the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Destination of Appeals) Order 2000 (SI 2000/1071, “the 2000 Order”), which is revoked by this Order (article 7). The provisions of this Order differ from those of the 2000 Order in that they make no distinction between interim and final decisions and remove the exceptions by which appeals against certain final decisions would lie to the Court of Appeal. The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Destination of Appeals) Order 2016 2In this Order—“the 1981 Act” means the Senior Courts Act 1981;“the 1984 Act” means the County Courts Act 1984;“the Companies Acts” means the Companies Act 1985, the Companies Act 1989 and the Companies Act 2006;“decision” includes any judgment, order or direction of the High Court or the county court;“enterprise judge” has the meaning assigned to it by rule 63.1(2)(h) of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998;“family proceedings” has the meaning assigned to it by section 32 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984; and“a judge of the county court” has the meaning assigned to it by section 5 of the 1984 Act. 1981 c. 54. By virtue of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), Schedule 11, Part 1, paragraph 1 and Part 4, paragraph 26, the Supreme Court Act 1981 was renamed “the Senior Courts Act 1981”. 1984 c. 28. 1985 c. 6. 1989 c. 40. 2006 c. 46. S.I. 1998/3132. Rule 63.1 was substituted by S.I. 2009/3219, rule 12 and the Schedule, and was subsequently amended by S.I. 2009/3390, rules 1(2), 2, 10(b) and 38(a) and (b), S.I. 2212/2208, rule 1, and S.I. 2013/1974, rule 26(b)(ii). 1984 c. 42. Section 5 was amended by section 17 of, and paragraph 4 in Part 1 of Schedule 9 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22). Art. 2 in force at 3.10.2016, see art. 1(2)