The Civil Procedure Rules 1998

Exercise of jurisdiction under Representation of the People Acts

Rule 5—(1) Proceedings in the High Court under the Representation of the People Acts shall be assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) the jurisdiction of the High Court under the said Acts in matters relating to parliamentary and local government elections shall be exercised by a Divisional Court.

(3) Paragraph (2) shall not be construed as taking away from a single judge or a master any jurisdiction under the said Acts which, but for that paragraph, would be exercisable by a single judge or, as the case may be, by a Master.

(4) Where the jurisdiction of the High Court under the said Acts is by a provision of any of those Acts made exercisable in matters relating to parliamentary elections by a single judge, that jurisdiction in matters relating to local government elections shall also be exercisable by a single judge.

(5) A claim form by which any application relating to parliamentary or local government elections is made shall be in Form No. 10 in the relevant Practice Direction.