The County Court (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016

Made: 17th October 2016

Coming into operation: 7th November 2016

The County Court Rules Committee makes and the Department of Justice, after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, allows the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 47 of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980[^f00001] and paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1986[^f00002].

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

These Rules may be cited as the County Court (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 7th November 2016.

2

In these Rules—

• (a) “the principal Rules” means the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981[^f00003]; and

• (b) a reference to an Order, Rule, paragraph, Appendix or Form is a reference to that Order, Rule, paragraph, Appendix or Form so numbered in the principal Rules.

Amendments to the principal Rules

3

The principal Rules are amended as follows—

• (1) In Order 48, Rule 3—

• (a) in paragraph (3), for “or indoor arena” substitute “, indoor arena or outdoor stadium”; and

• (b) after paragraph (3), insert—

(4) Where the application is for the grant or declaration of the final grant of a licence for an outdoor stadium, evidence that the premises comply with Article 2AA(c) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 as being premises which are designated in Regulations as a stadium which the Department considers to be of importance to the whole of Northern Ireland shall be given at the hearing of the application by production of a copy of the relevant Regulations.

• (2) Appendix 1 shall be amended as follows—

• (a) by inserting after Form 200A, the new Form 200B in the Schedule to these Rules: and

• (b) in Form 209, after “[k]”, insert “[l]”.

SCHEDULE

Signed

D K McFarland — Alistair F Devlin — Patrick Mullarkey — R Collins — Fiona Fee — Dated 28th September 2016

In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 47(4) of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980, I allow these Rules.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Justice on 17th October 2016

Claire Sugden — Minister of Justice

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Rules amend the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981 (S.R. 1981 No. 225) to make provision relating to an application for the grant of a liquor licence for an outdoor stadium.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1980/397 (N.I. 3); to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4) and paragraph 33 of Schedule 17 to, and paragraph 118 of Schedule 18 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1996/3158 (N.I. 22); as amended by S.I. 2004/1994 (N.I.17) and the Licensing Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 24)(N.I.)

[^f00003]: S.R. 1981 No. 225; to which the most relevant amendments were made by S.R. 2004 No. 463 and S.R. 2016 No. 302