The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) 1989

• Citation: S.I. 1989/177
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) These Rules may be cited as the Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) 1989 and shall come into force on 7th March 1989.

(2) In these Rules an Order referred to by number means the Order so numbered in the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 .

Section 2 Consumer Credit Act 1974

Order 6, rule 2 shall be amended by substituting a semi-colon for the full stop at the end of paragraph (1) (d) and by inserting thereafter the words:—

(e) where the action relates to a consumer credit agreement, with a certificate that the action is not one to which section 141 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 applies.

Section 3 Consumer Credit Act 1974

Order 88, rule 3 shall be amended by substituting a comma for the full stop at the end of paragraph (3) and by inserting thereafter the words:—

“and a certificate that the action is not one to which section 141 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 applies.”.

Section 4 Money paid into court under order

Order 22, rule 8 shall be amended as follows:—

(1) The existing paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be renumbered as (2) and (3) respectively, and for the words “paragraph (2)” in the new paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the words “paragraph (3)”.

(2) The following new paragraph shall be inserted as paragraph (1):—

(1) On making any payment into court under an order of the court or a certificate of a master or associate, a party must give notice thereof to every other party to the proceedings.

Section 5 Admiralty Registrar

Order 36, rule 11 shall be amended by inserting after the words in paragraph (1) “before a master” the words “or the Admiralty Registrar”.

Section 6 Admiralty Registrar

Order 36, rule 11 shall be further amended by adding after paragraph (3) the following new paragraph:—

(4) Rule 4 shall apply in relation to the Admiralty Registrar and the conduct of any proceedings before the Admiralty Registrar at a trial before him under this Order as it applies in relation to an Official Referee and the conduct of proceedings before an Official Referee, except that the Admiralty Registrar shall not have power to make orders of committal.

Section 7 Proceedings for Judicial Review

Order 53, rule 6(4) shall be amended by substituting for the words “21 days” the words “56 days”.