Part 1 Amendments of the County Courts Act 1984
Crime and Courts Act 2013 (2013 c 22) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 9 Single County Court in England and Wales

Section 17

Part 1 Amendments of the County Courts Act 1984

1

The County Courts Act 1984 is amended as follows.

2

(1)     Section 3 (place and time of sittings) is amended as follows.

(2)     For subsections (1) and (2) substitute—

“(1)     Sittings of the county court may be held, and any other business of the county court may be conducted, anywhere in England and Wales.

(1A)     Sittings of the county court at any place may be continuous or intermittent or occasional.

(2)     Sittings of the county court may be held simultaneously to take any number of different cases in the same place or different places, and the court may adjourn cases from place to place at any time.

(2A)     The places at which the county court sits, and the days and times at which it sits in any place, are to be determined in accordance with directions given by the Lord Chancellor after consulting the Lord Chief Justice.â€

(3)     Omit subsection (4) (references to sittings of the court to include sittings by a district judge).

(4)     In subsection (5) (delegation of Lord Chief Justice's functions under subsection

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