2017 No. 1148 (L. 18)
Senior Courts Of England And Wales
County Court, England And Wales
The Civil Procedure Act 1997 (Amendment) Order 2017
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2A(1) of the Civil Procedure Act 19971, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with section 2A(2), and having consulted in accordance with section 2A(2A), of that Act, makes the following Order.
Citation and Commencement1.
This Order may be cited as the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (Amendment) Order 2017 and comes in to force on 19th December 2017.
Amendment of the 1997 Act2.
In section 2(2) of the Civil Procedure Act 19972, after sub-paragraph (c) insert—
“(ca)
one person who is a judge of the Senior Courts, a Circuit judge or a district judge and who has particular experience of the law applicable in Wales,”.
Dominic Raab
Minister of State for Justice
Ministry of Justice
I concur
Sir Ian Burnett
Lord Chief Justice
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends section 2(2) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (c.12) to permit the Lord Chief Justice to appoint to the Civil Procedure Rule Committee a person who is a judge of the Senior Courts, a Circuit judge or a district judge and who has particular experience of the law applicable in Wales.