Part 2: Courts, tribunals and coroners Chapter 2: Online procedure Section 21: Provision supplementing section 19
Subsection (1) enables the Lord Chancellor to specify the circumstances in which a party to proceedings may choose whether to proceed under Online Procedure Rules or under the applicable standard rules for the appropriate alternative civil or family court or tribunal, and subsection (2) makes it clear that practice directions for online proceedings (under Schedule 3) do not apply where the applicable standard rules apply because of provision made under subsection (1). Subsections (3) and (4) enable the Lord Chancellor to specify the circumstances in which Online Procedure Rules should not apply, or cease to apply, to specified proceedings (subsection (5) explains the meaning of "excluded proceedings") and to provide for the circumstances in which such proceedings may nonetheless remain subject to the Online Procedure Rules, so enabling the rules to provide for alternative procedures under section 19 (10) to (12).
	Subsections (6) and (7) make regulations under this section subject to the "concurrence requirement" (i.e. requiring the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice or Senior President of Tribunals – see section 31) and to affirmative resolution procedure.