Commentary on Sections Schedule 9: Single county court in England and Wales Parts 2 to 4 of Schedule 9: Other amendments and repeals
301.Parts 2 and 3 make consequential amendments to other Acts of Parliament which make reference to county courts and the judges who sit in them. The amendments are similar to those made to the 1984 Act by Part 1 of the Schedule. However, in relation to other Acts, by far the most numerous amendments are those which substitute, for references to “a county court”, references to “the county court”. Other amendments remove or modify provisions which tie jurisdiction to specific county courts or districts and judges for a district, and a small number of amendments repeal provisions which confer specialist jurisdiction on a specific county court or courts - in particular paragraph 30, which repeals those provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988 which establish a Patents County Court (intellectual property jurisdiction will be re-allocated and structured under existing powers). Part 4 contains consequential repeals.