Section 42 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 (restriction of vexatious civil proceedings) shall be amended as follows.
In subsection (1)—
in paragraphs (a) and (b) for the word "legal " there shall be substituted, in each case, "civil ";
at the end of paragraph (b) there shall be inserted—or cinstituted vexatious prosecutions (whether against the same person or different persons),; and
for the words from "order " to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted—make a civil proceedings order, a criminal proceedings order or an all proceedings order..
After subsection (1) there shall be inserted—
In subsection (3), for the word "legal " there shall be substituted "civil ".
After subsection (3) there shall be inserted—
In subsection (4), for the words from "for the institution " to the end there shall be substituted "required by virtue of this section ".
An order made under section 42 before the commencement of this section and in force at the time of that commencement shall, for the purposes of that section as amended by this section, be treated as a civil proceedings order.