(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Civil Courts Order 1983 (“the Order”) as a consequence of the Companies Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”) and regulations made under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 (“the regulations”) which apply and modify provisions of the 2006 Act in relation to limited liability partnerships. The 2006 Act and the regulations give the power to exclude a county court from having jurisdiction to deal with matters under that Act (including as applied to limited liability partnerships) and, for the purposes of those jurisdictions, assign the district of that court to another county court.
New article 10A of the Order sets out the provision to exclude specified county courts from having the jurisdiction to deal with matters under the 2006 Act and the regulations, and assigns the district of each excluded court to another county court.
A sixth column is inserted in Schedule 3 of the Order to set out those courts to which are attached the district of the county courts excluded from having jurisdiction under the 2006 Act and the regulations.