The County Court (Amendment) Rules 1997
These Rules amend the County Court Rules 1981 so as—to reflect the change in name of chief clerk(rules 3(a) and 4);to enable the proper officer to take oral examinations (or to nominate an officer of the court to do so) and to remove the requirement for that officer to be of a certain grade in the Court Service(rules 3(b) and 5);to provide a procedure where a question arising in proceedings is transferred to a leasehold valuation tribunal for determination(rule 6);to amend the accelerated possession procedure following the enactment (by the Housing Act 1996, section 96) of section 19A of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50) (rule 7);to provide the procedure for making an application for an injunction against anti-social behaviour (rule 8);to enlarge the circumstances in which a summons in a business list action may be served out of England and Wales (rule 9), andto correct a cross reference in Order 42, rule 5 (subsequent procedure in default action against the Crown) (rule 10).