Part 2: Courts, tribunals and coroners Chapter 2: Online procedure Section 27: Power to require Online Procedure Rules to be made
The Lord Chancellor may (as with other rule committees) give the OPRC written notice that the Lord Chancellor thinks that the online rules should include provision to achieve a specified purpose. The Committee must on being given such a notice make the rules within a reasonable period and in accordance with the procedure for making rules, outlined above. Although rarely used, it is a matter of expediency that the appropriate Minister should be able to direct the Committee to make rules, which might be required as a matter of urgency, without additional procedure. This is consistent with current powers in section 3A of the Civil Procedure Act 1997, section 79A of the Courts Act 2003 and Part 3 of Schedule 5 to the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007.