Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2013 No. 131

County Courts

County Court Divisions (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013

Made

14th May 2013

Coming into operation

10th June 2013

The Department of Justice makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 3(1) of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980(1) after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the County Court Divisions (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 and shall come into operation on 10th June 2013.

Amendments to the County Court Divisions Order (Northern Ireland) 1994

2.  The County Court Divisions Order (Northern Ireland) 1994(2) is amended as follows—

(a)in Article 2, for “seven”, substitute “three”;

(b)for the Schedule, substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Justice on 14 May 2013

Legal seal

David Ford

Minister of Justice

Article 2(b)

SCHEDULE

Articles 2 and 3

“SCHEDULE

Divisions and the petty sessions districts comprised therein

(1)

Name of division

(2)

Petty sessions districts comprised in division

Ards

Ards

Castlereagh

Down

North Down

Armagh and South Down

Armagh

Banbridge

Newry and Mourne

Belfast

Antrim

Ballymena

Belfast and Newtownabbey

Craigavon

East Tyrone

Fermanagh

Larne

Limavady

Lisburn

Londonderry

Magherafelt

North Antrim

Omagh

Strabane”

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the County Court Divisions Order (Northern Ireland) 1994 to reduce the number of county court divisions into which Northern Ireland is divided from seven to three.

(1)

S.I. 1980/397 (N.I. 3); relevant amending statute is 2005 c.4.