
1 
This Order may be cited as the 
Civil Courts (Amendment No. 2) Order 1984 and
shall come into operation on the 1st October 1984.
2 
The district registry of the High Court
at Whitehaven shall be closed.
3 
A district registry of the High Court
shall be established at Workington.
4 

(1) A county court shall be held at Colwyn
Bay under the name of the Conwy and Colwyn County Court.
(2) The holding of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
Bridgnorth, Conwy, Hinckley, Leominster, Stamford, Tonbridge and Whitehaven
County Courts shall be discontinued.
(3) The county courts mentioned in 
column 2 of Schedule 1 to this Order shall
have jurisdiction in proceedings commenced before this Order comes into operation
in the courts mentioned opposite thereto in Column 1.
(4) No process shall be invalid only because
the court is described therein by the name by which it was known before the
coming into operation of this Order.
5 
For the purposes of 
section 1(1) of the Matrimonial Causes
Act 1967 the Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge
County Court shall be a divorce county court and court of trial.
6 
For the purposes of 
section 55(1) of the County Courts
Act 1959:—
(a) the Workington County Court shall be
appointed to have Admiralty jurisdiction; and
(b) the districts of the Carlisle County
Court and the Penrith County Court shall be assigned to the Workington County
Court for Admiralty purposes.
7 
For the purposes of 
section 96(2) of the Bankruptcy Act
1914 and section
218(5) of the Companies Act 1948
the district of the Ludlow County Court shall be attached to the Hereford
County Court and the district of the Woolwich County Court shall be attached
to the Croydon County Court for the purposes of those jurisdictions.
8 
The amendments set out in 
Schedule 2 to this Order shall be made to the Civil Courts Order 1983,
as amended, being amendments that are consequential upon the foregoing
provisions of this Order.
Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C
Dated 24th July 1984
SCHEDULE 1


Column 1 Column 2
Ashby-de-la-Zouch Burton-on-Trent

Bridgnorth Wellington
Conwy Conwy
and Colwyn
Hinckley Nuneaton

Leominster Hereford
Stamford 
Peterborough
Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells
Whitehaven Workington
SCHEDULE 2

The Civil Courts
Order 1983 shall be amended as follows—

(1) in schedule
1:—
(a)  after the entry relating to Worcester
there shall be inserted the following new entry:

FIRST COLUMN SECOND COLUMN
Workington 
Workington
(b)  the entry relating to the Whitehaven
District Registry shall be deleted;
(c)  the entries in the second column relating
to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Bridgnorth, Conwy, Hinckley, Leominster, Stamford and
Tonbridge shall be deleted; and
(d)  the words “Conwy and Colwyn”
 shall be inserted in the second column opposite the entry for Caernarfon
in the first column.
(2)  in schedule
3:—
(a)  the entries relating to the county courts
at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Bridgnorth, Hinckley, Leominster, Stamford, Tonbridge
and Whitehaven shall be deleted;
(b)  the word “Divorce”
 shall be inserted in the second column opposite the entry for Ashton-under-Lyne
in the first column;
(c)  the word “Admiralty”
 shall be inserted in the second column opposite the entry for Workington
in the first column and the word “Whitehaven” in
the third column thereof shall be deleted;
(d)  the word “Workington”
 shall be inserted and the word “Whitehaven”
shall be deleted in the third column opposite the entries for Carlisle and
Penrith in the first column;
(e)  the word “Hereford”
 shall be inserted and the word “Leominster”
shall be deleted in the fourth column opposite the entry for Ludlow in the
first column;
(f) the word “Croydon”
shall be inserted and the words “High Court” shall
be deleted in the fourth column opposite the entry for Woolwich in the first
column; and
(g)  after the entry relating to Colchester
there shall be inserted the following new entry:

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column
4 Column 5
Colwyn Bay  Bangor Bangor Wrexham
(3)  in schedule
4:—
(a)  after the entry numbered 11 (for Colchester)the
words, “The name of the county court at Colwyn Bay shall be the
Conwy and Colwyn County Court” shall be inserted; and
(b)  the new entry for Colwyn Bay shall be
numbered 12 and the existing entries 12 to 17 shall be renumbered 13 to 18
respectively.
