The Civil Courts Order 2014

• Citation: S.I. 2014/819
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Commencement, citation and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Civil Courts Order 2014 and shall come into force on 22nd April 2014.

(2) In this Order “Chancery district registry” means the Chancery district registries sitting at Birmingham, Bristol, Caernarfon, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Mold, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Preston.

Section 2 District Registries of the High Court

(1) There shall be a district registry at each of the places specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order.

(2) The name of every place so specified shall be the name of the district registry at that place, except that ... the name of the district registry at Chatham shall be the Medway District Registry, the name of the district registry at Margate shall be the Thanet District Registry and the name of the district registry at Torquay shall be the Torquay and Newton Abbot District Registry.

(3) A district registry which is also a Chancery district registry is denoted by the words “(Chancery)” following the name of the place at which the district registry is situated.

(4) The district of each district registry shall be the area comprising the areas served by the hearing centres of the County Court named in the second column of the Schedule to this Order opposite the name of the place at which the district registry is situated.