Section 23: General powers of the Online Procedure Rule Committee

Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 · 2022 c. 35View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: Courts, tribunals and coroners — Chapter 2: Online procedure

For making Online Procedure Rules for proceedings of a kind set out in an entry in the first column of the following table, the Online Procedure Rule Committee has the powers set out in the corresponding entry in the second column.

Online Procedure Rules may apply other procedural provision.

The other procedural provision may be applied to proceedings of a particular kind even if the provision would not normally be applicable to that kind of proceedings.

The other procedural provision may be applied—

to any extent;
with or without modifications;
as amended from time to time.

In subsections (2) to (4) “other procedural provision” means—

Civil Procedure Rules,
Family Procedure Rules,
Tribunal Procedure Rules,
Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules,
other rules of court,
directions under—
section 7A or 29A of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996,
section 5 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997,
section 81 of the Courts Act 2003, or
section 23 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, or
any other provision governing the practice or procedure of a court or tribunal which is made by or under an enactment (whenever passed or made).

Online Procedure Rules may, instead of providing for any matter, refer to provision made or to be made about that matter by directions under Schedule 3.

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